By Claire Walter on March 18, 2011
New (or at least new-to-me) organization based in Finland. Thank you, Facebook, for the introduction I vowed to myself (and to you too) that I would post more frequently to this blog, and I’ve fallen behind again. I vowed to myself (but maybe not to you) that I would try to focus more of my posts to [...]
Posted in Certification, Europe, Finland, Organization | Tagged Nordic Walking organization |
By Claire Walter on January 7, 2011
DayTripping, a New Brunswick-based outdoor recreation company that sells and gear and runs programs, is closing out its inventory of Gymstick Nordic Walking poles. If you’re interested, call 506-657-8747 or E-mail info@daytripping.com for more information. Like Exel, the first Europen brand-name pole, Gymstick is a Finnish company, with fitness products that include walking poles and [...]
Posted in Canada, Finland, Poles | Tagged close-out sale, New Brunsiwck |
By Claire Walter on June 14, 2010
June 12, 2010, was a landmark day in Nordic Walking cooperative efforts Two significant Nordic Walking events occurred yesterday — not the introduction of a new kind of pole or the unveiling of yet another technique tweak, but one event and news of a new grassroots organization that underscore the commonality of different aspects of the Nordic Walking [...]
Posted in Europe, Events, Festival, Finland, Organization, Poles, United Kingdom |
By Claire Walter on August 8, 2008
Cruise passengers up for an energetic Nordic Walk get locals’ perspective on Helsinki I’ve always thought that cruise vacations and Nordic Walking coule have a symbiotic relationship: work off a bit of the caloric intake with a bit of a workout. Crystal Cruises’ Baltic itineries now include the option of a Nordic Walking shore excursion [...]
Posted in Europe, Finland, Groups, Travel |
By Claire Walter on May 7, 2008
Pioneering pole brand remains in Finnish hands In a major Finnish business development, the Exel Group has sold what some reports call “its troubled outdoor sports division” to Karhu Sports, a major presence in cross-country skiing equipment. Exel makes poles for trekking, Nordic walking and blading, and for Alpine and Nordic skiing, so the fit [...]
Posted in Finland, Poles |
By Claire Walter on September 24, 2007
Given the fact that I am a travel writer, I probably should have posted information earlier this year about Nordic Walking opportunities in Finland, Europe’s first center of fitness walking with poles. But I subscribe to the better-late-in-2007-than-never-in-2007 theory. There’s also the reality that since the dollar is on the skids now, anyone planning a [...]
Posted in Europe, Finland, Groups, Travel |
By Claire Walter on August 27, 2007
Although the roots of what would become Nordic Walking can be traced back to cross-country ski racers’ inventiveness in the 1930s, and although it is still in its infancy in North America, Finland has set 1997 as the birth of the fitness activity as we know it. According to a report in Helsingin Sanomat, a [...]
Posted in Finland, Groups, History, Participation |
By Claire Walter on January 27, 2007
I had previously read that what is now Nordic Walking began as a dryland training regimen for Finnish cross-country ski racers. Now, the international edition of a Finnish newspaper called Helsingen Sanomat presents another story of the sport’s origins. The paper’s English edition ran an article called “When Finland ‘Nordic Walked’ Its Way Onto the [...]
Posted in Europe, Finland, History, Participation |
