This year, I reach my gritty half century. When considering long races for this most significant of years, I wondered about doing something around the end of June to mark the great day. It may seem paradoxical to celebrate my unscheduled longevity with an attempt to kill myself in public, but that’s a discussion for another time. Anyway, my researches threw up this: that Finland is a cornucopia of bizarre, midsummer races.… READ MORE.... …