Starts today and ends on Sunday. I will participate and hope to get some new ideas. The most interesting topics are Nordic ski jumpers and their coaches as well as speed-skaters presenting their methods for strength training. Loren Seagrave from the states is also there to present how to acquire speed strength. I have a [...]
No flies today (almost). We had to walk pretty much on the road all day. Feet are hurting a bit but the traditional sauna did its best and now we are to bed. Too fast walking once again. Well, now we have good time to prepare the gottage for the winter etc. Water ain’t too [...]
Yearly hiking trip is ongoing. This year we headed to Vesanto which is in Savo. I must say that this route is not too popular. Luckily the route is marked fairly well, otherwise we would have never found our way (at least the right way). However, the place where we stay for the night is [...]
Well, at least here in Finland. There were still two combined events competitions last weekend; Maken ottelut in Helsinki (results here) and Finnish youth championships in Tampere and Nokia. For the international competitions, the season ended in Europe in Talence also yesterday. Karpov winner there with 8438 points, then Drozdov 8208 and Sebrle 8180. Talence [...]
In the picture Sami Itani tries at 440. Sami is heading for victory in men’s under 20 class. Otto Kilpi lead still after hurdles but the last four events are more Sami’s events. My trainee Annika did 16,00 (-0,9), 138, 10,58 and 28,60 (-0,6) giving total 2356 points after the first day (22./32).
The competitions have already started today. Timetables, results, etc. may be found here. In couple of classes there are around 40 enrolled youngsters but let’s see how many will get on the starting blocks. We were supposed to be four traveling but we are down to two as the others got flu. It seems to [...]
The gig was definitely worth travelling down (as on map looking from the cold north) to Paris. The last time Pearl Jam was in Europe was in year 2000. I could not make it to the concert that time as I was just getting out from the army. That time they came as close as [...]
Finally get to see them live. Rock, rock!
IÂ had my last competition of the season yesterday. I had only discus and javelin so it was a relaxed season ending. It was raining and the humidity was so high that it was more like being in a Turkish hammam (Turkish bath) than in rain. Consequently, I had real problems in keeping the grip [...]
Heinälammi throwing decathlon 2006 was held last Saturday. I am sorry for not informing you as the forecasting result service was naturally present as well. Actually, I sent a blog post from my mobile, but it did not evidently come through. I do not know why, as it has previously worked without any problems and [...]
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