Decathlon Blog

Stitches were removed yesterday from both sides of the heel. I believe recovering process is on schedule. I could walk quite well already one week after the surgery and now the surgery area does not swell that much either anymore. Two weeks without a sauna is a long period for a Finn, so I am [...]

For a change a new version of CECalculatr was made available today. It includes a lot of bug fixes and small additions. Maybe the biggest addition to previous version is “compare results” view, where results from several saved combined events are listed in the same view. Due to a bug in the S60 3rd edition [...]

Finnish indoor combined events season was opened last weekend in Helsinki and continued this weekend in Turku. Only a couple of athletes participated both the competitions. My athlete exceeded clearly my expectations. It is always a pleasure to see that athlete is evolving. Of course development is mostly only natural in youth classes, but still [...]

No problems on the surgery. The small bone, size of a fingertip, was removed as well as adhesions that had developed to the tendon. Heeling process should be similar to the first operation: stitches should be removed after 10 days, swimming can be started after 2 weeks, cycling 3-4 weeks, normal walking 3 weeks, gym [...]

I will have the Achilles operation luckily already on Monday. From the picture you may see what is wrong. White area means that there is some liquide that does not belong in there. The small bone above the heel that is irritating the upper part of the Achilles tendon is also itself surrounded by white [...]

The sign on the picture says field closed. That is pretty much my status currently. I will have to pass a keyhole surgery to get my left Achilles tendon operational again. There is a small bone that is causing the inflammation and the surgery is targeting that small bone. Surgery will be done in the [...]

Today I will meet the doctor who operated my Achilles tendon. I tested running yesterday and run 150m in 24 s without any pain in the tendon. I have not stressed the tendon for a month now and it is getting slowly better. Today it feels a bit irritated compared to previous days but I [...]