So, I ended up with Tera after discussing with Toni once in Europe about what club I should join. I told him that there was them, and Suunta Jyvaskyla. I said that Tera was obviously a really strong club with all the good runners, and I guess if I wanted to get better I should join them, but I'm not sure they'll let me.
The about a month later I receive an e-mail that said "Toni said you wanted to join Vaajakosken Tera, that's great. You're in."
And.... that was pretty much that. They haven't kicked me out yet, so it would seem that the level of eliteness is, at least, me. I'm terrified of every race I go in, though, and am especially concerned because they've put me on a team for relay champs and I'm going first.
Those two are as far as I can tell the only local clubs, and S-JKL seems to be only juniors. There were zero M21's from that club at the long last weekend. I'm not sure what I would have done otherwise, its not like clubs were courting me left and right to join them.
On the jersey front, I'll only wear club jerseys from clubs I actually belong to. So, I'm not quite giving my Canada club a fair rap, since I was never able to get one from my UK club either (they never had my size).
On Monday we had a club meeting, but it was full on three hours of Finnish only. It sounded a little
like this.