Picture: The first race of the women’s Crashed Ice competition
This past week I have seen an extreme winter sporting event and I have also joined the local swim team. The winter event I saw is part of the Redbull crashed ice tour. It is where 4 ice skaters skate downhill at speeds around 50 mph on a course with jumps, curves and also drops. It is also a very dangerous game so much so that they have to keep an ambulance near the track. In this small town of Jyvaskyla this world wide quarter finals are a very big event. It causes quite a hullabaloo.
This week I also joined the local swim team. It’s one out of two here. My first day I was pretty nervous, but then the coach introduced me to everybody (all 7 of them). It was a physically demanding work out. I didn’t know it at the time, but I swam over 3.2 miles that day. Plus I made a new friend! Overall, this week has been amazing. I am finally getting into the groove of things here in the official home of Santa.