Annemari Kiekara, 42, a surprise move: to Get success in skiing, a bad fall, still haunts the mind

Annemari Kiekara (os. Sandell) will compete in the winter season skiing in. The main objective is the success of Ylitornion SM championships in the 30-kilometer race. Also ran-career interest yet.Annemari Kiekara, 42, applied for the success of the ski slopes. On Wednesday, she competed in Vantaa, Finland in the cup. Santtu Silvennoinen

the Finnish in the top runner Annemari Kiekara (os. Sandell) made a surprise transfer this season, when he applied for the cannon run on the ski slopes.

– would have been hiihdossakin a chance to get to the top of the world. As a little girl I used to ski to some, but when I lived in the southwest corner, so the snow situation was bad. It was largely also a question of money. Running was cheaper, so it could afford to do, even though you had the money, Kiekara tell.

He skied about five years ago the Finnish championships in the 30-kilometre position in the top ten, but after skiing remained.

Now he's trying to 42-year-old forged the result of the Imatra and Ylitornion SM-race of this season.

the Goal is ambitious, because the first run this season came only on christmas eve.

– I have a torn shoulder in August, when I fell on roller skis in Imatra. I give this moment too much smoothing going downhill, when the brakes of them, and I'm not afraid to fall. Now I'm sure 100 meters of the opponent to take the downhill to catch up. For the condition I think I can handle, as long as you get the miles under and fear take a back seat.

Traditional is On Tl:on south-western Finnish residents kiekara the better way to go.

a Marathon of the mind

Kiekara allows you to run in are so significant, that to this day the finns can only dream about. He was, inter alia, the olympic games in Atlanta, ten in the twelfth. Possession is a ten and a five iron IT times 31.40,42 and 14.56,22.

He reached for the Rio olympic marathon in 2016, but the legs were watered down by the dreams.

In 2017, the woman was the Stockholm marathon on the twelfth time 2.49.16. The record is 2.35.12.

the Marathon it's still burning in mind.

– the back of the thighs there was a problem with, but skiing in it doesn't matter. I was cut in half within a year, twice, when the second rear reid blocking all three of the flesh were loose or they were the only film to catch up.

Skiing women wants to create a solid base to run through.

See you in the spring: if you ski on I get the basics, then pretty quickly some levels to get the run in. It sees then you can get to. If the body lasts, so the marathon or shorter distances the competition in the summer.

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– Twice the life I have Cooper run. The second was in junior high school and another a few years ago. Both times I ran 3 600 meters, born in 1977, a woman with a laugh.

– When there is the 5 000-meter run at the time of 14.56,22, can each calculate how much goes to 12 minutes, the husband Mika Kiekara exclaimed in the background.

on Wednesday, Vantaa, Finland cup, Kiekara the other team Ski Jyväskylä as an anchor to the finish # 17. Kiekara had his share 18:from fast. Paint the ski 26 teams.

– Good it was to ski a heavy hill, but going downhill I just don't dare.

Toni Fools will assess the Finnish cup importance.