10K winter trail run 🥰🏃 Day 18 of every-day running.
Route, stats and more photos and videos on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/17093037267
Went for my 5K run on ice today. January daily running streak: day 17.
🔥Day 11 of Rolle's January 2026 Running Challenge. Nice 10K, hunting new snowy paths across the city.
CityStrides: 7 new streets
Stride: 33 new hexes
Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/17012243626
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Didn't know @lehtimaeki had a YouTube channel! Subscribed right away. I've been thinking about leaving Strava too, but since I already use Meta services and other corporate platforms, I've stayed, mostly because their API still works. I use it on a small scale to save my runs to a cached JSON file that I can pull into different apps I've built, and I still enjoy the social aspect.
I use around 20 different running apps out of curiosity, and honestly, there are no real alternatives to social running apps. 99% of them are for tracking. If I had the time, I'd build "my own Strava" or even a decentralized running app. But for now, I'll stick with Strava, it works fine for me. I like my "running feed", one single source of truth for all my runs.
For reading, I switched to the Bookshelf app from Goodreads years ago (https://getbookshelf.com). I lost the social aspects of reading, but I don't really miss them since I read alone anyway. There are platforms like Hardcover, StoryGraph, and Bookwyrm, but each of them seems to lack something, whether it's a proper app, features, or decent UI, so I stick with Bookshelf, which is completely local and has a nice user interface.
The way I see it, we have to live with these cognitive dissonances: either choose independence and stay mostly alone or accept the corporate walled gardens for the social features. I use both, roughly 50/50 commercial and open source apps. For the commercial ones, I try to keep control of my data as much as possible by keeping backups, saving to JSON/log/database, using APIs, and so on.
Maybe we should post more runs to Mastodon? The problem is currently I don't have time or energy to post ALL my runs to social media, with all of the details. Something will always be missing.
Sandelsmies dominoi kantakaupunkia vielä toistaiseksi. Mutta ei kauaa!
Stride on hauska sovellus piristämään treenejä. Kävelijät, juoksijat ja pyöräilijät - kaikki mukaan! https://playstride.app
Day 9 of every day running.
🔥Day 1 - 10K, +55 hexes - Rolle's January 2026 Running Challenge
It's -15 °C (5 °F), but I got used to it pretty quickly. Stride and CityStrides are fun again with lots of new running paths. WorkOutDoors and Habitify have both added new features. Loving it!
https://www.strava.com/activities/16902912103/flyover?origin=shared
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It seems the less I post about running, the less I actually run. My November-December stats are embarrassing to look at. First it was twice a week, then barely once a week.
Conclusion: I'll try posting about my runs more often to keep myself more accountable.
Kunhan tästä influenssasta tervehdyn, ajattelin kickstartata juoksemisen, alkuun perinteinen "joka päivä vähintään 2km haaste" tammikuulle. Ketä mukana? @perspiraattori tälläkin kertaa?
Suomalaisia (erityisesti jyväskyläläisiä) juoksijoita olisi kiva nähdä Stridessä ja Stravassa, laittakaahan seurantaan:
https://playstride.app (Settings → Find players → rolle)
https://www.strava.com/athletes/rlaukkarinen
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Too hot outside, so indoor run day it is.
June Half Marathon jog.
#RolleJuoksee#Run#Running#LongRun#HalfMarathon#Juoksu#Juokseminen
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