Decathlon Blog

I just got the individual relay times from tape after a session of watching, rewinding and slow motion. I took me a while to realise that in my Canon camcorder one second is not divided into 100 units but 25. I was wondering how come the final results doesn’t match and the times look odd. [...]

Unluckily my digital camera seems to be fully broken now so I cannot provide you with pictures. I had only the 4×300m relay in the Finnish championships on Sunday and our team (Esbo IF) was on bronze. Actually silver was really close; just 0,08 s but Turku that took the silver run on the first [...]

Finnish championships will be held in Tampere on next weekend. List of participants can be found here. I’m taking part to the relays on Sunday. Relays are 4 x track round so 4 x 300 m in Tampere. We (Esbo IF) have a pretty good team so I suppose we’re fighting on the medals. [...]

After exhausting two days of sweat blood and rock an’ roll it was figured out who shall take the medals this year. Due to Jaakko ojaniemi’s bad luck in pole vault the road for Lassi Raunio becoming Finnish Champion was flattened out. The two subsequent positions were posted by Matti Vesterinen and Antti Miihkinen. We [...]

I’m on third place after 4 events. Shot put was 12.78 (12.78, 12.77, 12.68) and high jump only 183. I passed 183 clearly and 186 was really close but I dropped on top of the bar. 189 would have been the maximum today anyway. In the picture you have medalists for heptathlon women under 20 [...]

Ojanieni 747, Larsson 700, Raunio 694, I 652 and no results unluckily for Miihkinen. So we’re only three left. Something is still wrong with me as my muscles feel already very tired. High jump may be difficult. Viita is in lead in men under 23 class with 1551 points, Kelo 1539 (7.32, 680), Kaattari 1504 [...]

Ojanieni 6.96, Raunio 7.06, I 7.44, Miihkinen 7.52 and Larsson 7.58. I heard Dhouibi came to Finland yesterday evening but it seems that he didn’t make it this far.

Felt quite good today so hoping good results tomorrow. Valentine day’s 10 000m just started as we left Botniahalli. They seem to be few days behind normal calendar here in Vaasa as valentine day went already.
PS. I have some problems to get my digital camera on so let’s see if I can provide any pictures [...]

Finnish indoor combined events championships in Vaasa are held this weekend so it’s time to start speculations on who will get the medals. Ojaniemi and Raunio are clearly ahead of the others and unfortunately Nurmi cannot compete due to his knee injury. Consequently in men’s class there is only me and Miihkinen who will fight [...]

Hurdles again somewhat better; 9,05 (reaction time 0,165s). Pekka run beside me to 8,91 (reaction 0,130). I was just behind until 4th hurdle but stumbled on that one. On long jump I made quite good rehearsal jump but the first competition jump was ~70cm behind the fault line. The running got surprisingly that much worse [...]