{"id":180118,"date":"2021-02-17T02:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/who-needs-a-gym-shoeless-runners-trek-through-snow-in-finland\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T02:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:36:01","slug":"who-needs-a-gym-shoeless-runners-trek-through-snow-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/who-needs-a-gym-shoeless-runners-trek-through-snow-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"#Who needs a gym? Shoeless runners trek through snow in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Who needs a gym? Shoeless runners trek through snow in Finland<\/strong>”
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HELSINKI \u2013 Finns keen to avoid gyms and other indoor sports venues this winter because of the coronavirus pandemic have found a new way to keep fit \u2013 running in the snow wearing no training shoes, just thick woolen socks.<\/p>\n

Finland has seen particularly heavy snowfall this winter and running outside in just socks provides great exercise as well as a sense of freedom, said Pekka Parviainen, a helicopter pilot and an avid barefoot runner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is traditional Finnish crazy stuff, I think we all agree,\u201d said Parviainen while out running with a group in Nuuksio national park, 35 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital Helsinki.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s really the happ<\/a>iness side. I mean it\u2019s very good sport, strong exercise and everything, but it really is the happiness,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In Finland, where taking a sauna in winter and then running through snow to jump into an ice-cold lake is a traditional pastime, barefoot running has become popular in the past few years during the warmer months.<\/p>\n

Running in socks through heavy snow, now about half a meter deep in many places, takes this to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can do it quite light or you can do it really heavy in the deep snow as we did now. But the feeling afterwards is just great. You have had a good foot massage,\u201d Parviainen said, because your feet are not tightly \u201cpackaged\u201d in trainers.<\/p>\n

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There is no shortage of warm woollen socks as many Finns have taken to knitting during long winter lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Parviainen recommends wearing at least two, preferably three, pairs of woolen socks to get the most out of the run.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Who needs a gym? Shoeless runners trek through snow in Finland” HELSINKI \u2013 Finns keen to avoid gyms and other indoor sports venues this winter because of the coronavirus pandemic have found a new way to keep fit \u2013 running in the snow wearing no training shoes, just thick woolen socks. Finland has seen particularly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/finnish-snow-runners-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[93546,1545,72665,74498,14642,77183],"class_list":["post-180118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-16-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-finland","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-running","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}