Weekend roadtrip Missouri

This weekend is called the Labor Day weekend this year because next Monday will be a national holiday here in the United States. I took the opportunity to get some more time off from work and see some areas of the Midwest that are not the common travel destinations. And also as I'm trying to scratch States away from my visited States list I chose Missouri and St.Louis as my target. Today I first drove to St.Peters where I booked a hotel that is about 30kilometers from St.Louis. The hotel was a good and I used the first day to just relax after the trip, short jog on a treadmill, as it was blazing hot outside 36 degrees Celsius and really humid, and then stretching thoroughly. Tomorrow I will see the city and enjoy getting familiar with another big city in US.

Taking some time away from hard training also since I have to admit that disregarding my body's messages for the last months caused me to drift to some over-exhaustion. I have to try and get rid of it by resting, stretching more and I'm also taking extra massages now to get my muscles opened up. There's still plenty of time before the season begins so I just have to take care of this. Skating works good technically and I can push myself to certain extent but I'm not recovering as fast as I should. Only second week of the ice season but soon one month will be past and at that point I want to be in a lot better shape.

Have a great weekend the heat should stay here until Monday but I've been hearing word from Finland that Autumn is beginning to lay it's arm over the North. Brings smile on my face to even think how awesome the Autumn always is back home!

- Jarmo

The famous route 66 runs through Illinois close to Interstate highway 55