How My Casual Run Turned Into a Forced Half Marathon

Sometimes when life offers you lemons, you just got to run half marathon.

Henri Heinonen
Nov 5 · 3 min read

I was casually planning on going for my scheduled marathon training work out. I was supposed to run a bit over 11 kilometers or around 5 miles. I measured the trip on the map before I went for the run. I couldn’t use my phone as the GPS doesn’t work in the cold Finnish weather.

As background information, I started training for a marathon 1 week ago, and my typical length for running is around 10…

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Henri Heinonen

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Impact Entrepreneur, Co-Founder RenGlobe | Passionate tech investor from countryside maximizing human potential. Love running and do know you won’t believe it.

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