Ruska 2023 E15: Past 1800 km and more snow! 🤩

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I'm participating in a ~2100 km ultra distance cycling event Ruska 2023. Ruska 2023 starts on Friday 15.9. at 19:58 o’clock at sunset from Liepāja, Latvia. Ruska’s approximately 2000 km route visits significant locations of Finland’s wars and peaces. Start is from Holy Trinity church in Liepāja where the first Finnish oath of enlistment was sworn and finish is Muotkatakka at Kilpisjärvi from where the last artillery bombardment of Lapland war was fired. Participants have 8 days, 4 hours and 10 minutes to ride their self made route via certain checkpoints. Private resupply is forbidden so participants can only use equally available services such as shops and restaurants. You may cheer on the participants, but helping them, even online, is forbidden.
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Video: Pekka Tahkola
Cut & edit: Marko Kerola
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[@kirsipekkala4993]

Kiitos täältäkin! Äfvitonen saa taas hetken levätä 👌🏼🎞️

[@robadr13]

Really enjoying this matter-of-fact ride journal, and also seeing what the countryside & small towns look like in northern Sweden and Finland. The landscape is a lot like parts of Canada...but the roads through our towns are so wide that neighbours can barely see each other. 🙂 Could feel the reluctance to leave that grocery store in Vittangi. It may inspire me to get off the couch and go for an hour ride in the 12C drizzle.

[@PekkaTahkola]

Thank you Rob! I kinda like the villages and towns in Northern Sweden. They do feel to have a sense of community.

[@mikko_n]

Brr… maailmassa on selkeästi talvi-ihmisiä ja kesä-ihmisiä, ollaan vissiin tässä kohtaa vahvasti eri leirissä. Hiljalleen umpeen vaaleneva ajoura toi silti hienot muistot maaliskuiselta kolmesataselta. Tuolloin ajoin Halikon Prismalta Turkuun niin kovaa kuin 5-10cm syvässä autonrenkaan uuteen lumeen kairaamassa urassa pääsin ja uskalsin pikkunappuloilla mennä, samalla kun toivoin ettei se sohjo ihan vielä jäätyisi. Hyvää tekemistä, näitä on kiva katsella.

[@PekkaTahkola]

Kiitos! Lumi on ihanaa. Etenkin kun se on selvästi pakkasen puolella ja on siten myös kuivaa, vs vesisade 🤗

[@juhisheljaste]

Cokista jäillä 🤣🤣