Decathlon Blog

I’m going hiking this weekend. Target is Herajärven kierros in Koli. Length is 40km and we are planning to make it in two days, which shouldn’t be too rough. Hopefully the autumn russet is still visible. This might be the last days to see the wonderful colors of the nature. I’m also going to take [...]

It was no surprise that Miikka won again. Bigger fight was for the second place. Me and Kalle ended up with same points but I won thanks to two event victories (discus and 1500m steeples). Pekka was fourth just behind. My results were (I’ll define them later): hammer: 42m (4kg), discus: 55m (1kg), javelin 48m [...]

We (HUT) won Akateeminen Wartti as we have usually done. One round was 710m and our team run altogether 5650m within 15 minutes. I added some photos to my album. In the picture is the winning team (KY) for best style. They were successfully combining overalls and business suit. It seemed that people were quite [...]

55. Akateeminen Wartti (Academic quarter of an hour) is held today at 17:00 in Esplanadi park (Helsinki). This is a not so serious student sport happening held once in a year. The idea is that relay teams of up to seven persons run for 15 minutes (it can be a bit more if someone makes [...]

Update: I added some photos from the trip to my flickr album
SFI serie final in Mariehamn went fairly well. The girls I coached once this week on pole vault almost reached the goal I set for them (350cm). They did 190 and 150 so very well. In the picture Anna is about to drop the [...]

I was yesterday official in my team’s competitions for 6-15 year classes. I took time or actually looked what was the standing. It was quite difficult as the smallest ones tend to change their lane during the run.
It was damn cold; just able to write messages with my frozen fingers. It was also too dark [...]

Basically the last decathlon of the season is held in Talence France on Saturday and Sunday. The list of participants is available at Decastar web pages. Quickly looking at the men’s list seems that only Clay and Niklaus are missing from the Helsinki top 13. On women’s side the loss is bigger but Barber is [...]

Had a nice weekend in the archipelago. Tried to fool some fishes but we ended up eating in a fish buffet. Sun was shining all weekend and even the water was relatively comfortable. Felt like summer again. I added some photos to my flickr album. In the picture it’s me enjoying waterskiing.
Finnish championships in combined [...]

I went to play my first round of golf yesterday. Of course I didn’t go to range first but straight on the first tee. First drive of the season was a bit lousy but after the first five strokes or so I managed to put myself together and actually rest of the course went pretty [...]

Threw discus 36.80 yesterday at the Monday competitions held in Eltsu. Weather was really nice. Unluckily we had to throw outside the actual Eläintarha field since they haven’t put up the throwing place inside the field. Grass is now growing instead of sand in the inner field so I guess they want to protect it. [...]