Decathlon Blog

It was a great year at least for myself. New PB on decathlon and fourth place on Finnish Championships. Athletics season was fairly short for me but full of good results. Having done the forecasting result service for combined events and testing the first version on European Cup in Jyväskylä and then finally keeping it [...]

It was a quit morning in the indoor hall Liikuntamylly this morning. I guess people already got used to sleeping late. Saw some interesting news on the Net so I decided to share them with you. On athletics BBC had a intreview with Chambers and a story on Kelly Sotherton. L’Equipe voted Ladji Doucouré the [...]

…so this is Christmas. Happy Christmas to everyone! This is the last post to this Christmas calendar. It was actually quite fun to do it although few times I had to do my best to come up with an idea what to photo. Helsinki got a white Christmas. It’s snowing and not raining, which is [...]

Compulsory picture of a Christmas tree. One more day to go. It’s two day’s rest unless I’ll go skating etc. It all depends on the snow situation in Helsinki. Now we have around 0 degrees so let’s see how it goes. On Sunday it should be a bit colder again.

Take a good look at this guy since he’s the one who will try to enter your house through the chimney or some other means. Please do let him in; he has a tight schedule.
I guess all the public indoor training places in Helsinki will close tomorrow at 16:00. On Monday 26.12. athletes are able [...]

As the image shows we’ve now some frost and even a bit of snow on the ground. Past couple of days have been sunny with clear sky. Bad thing is that I’m sitting in office during the days and don’t see too much sun. Rain is still forecasted before Christmas for South cost of Finland, [...]

Santa’s little helpers are happy people. They’re right now observing all the children and reporting all the good and bad behaviour to Santa. Presents will be delivered correspondingly; be aware!
You may find required results for taking part to Finnish indoor championships here. The “easiest” ones for decathlonists would be long jump (700), 60m hurdles (8,70) [...]

Here are two straw bucks. They are a Finnish tradition. You can find more information on them and on Santa Claus etc. here.
Today we run the Cooper test (12min of running). I did 3160m and Pekka 3060m so pretty close to my goal. I run almost to the half way on 3km pace and then [...]

Christmas calendar made in Helsinki has to have a picture of Helsinki Cathedral or Tuomiokirkko as it’s called in local language. It can be seen when approaching the city from the sea. And there you have a Christmas tree as well in the picture.

It’s a Finnish tradition to bake a ginger bread house for Christmas. The funniest part is to eat the candies while baking. You can free your inner architect and design the house of your dreams.
Btw. Lyon lost yeasterday for the first time in French league this season =(.