Decathlon Blog

Six weeks have now passed after the Achilles tendon keyhole surgery. It seems that I am still on schedule, what comes to being able to start running after six weeks. I tried jogging and it went fine and I could run a bit faster as well. Shot put did not cause any problems either and [...]

Finnish championships in youth classes were held past weekend in Tampere. I was in place yesterday. The rhythm was pretty tense with three different age classes for both women and men. All the events were competed during the two days and it seemed that even the time schedule was more or less accurate. I was [...]

The second annual Olympiads will be held tomorrow. It is our “playful” winter sports event. I prepared the performance places for tomorrow. Curling will be one of our five events this year. It will performed on top of a river.

Beijing 2008 Olympic games are loaded with expectations. China has naturally high hopes for their home games. For the Chinese athletes it will be a opportunity of their lifetime and that has been visible already for a couple of years. New Chinese athletes have been popping up in almost all of the Olympic games events. [...]

Jari Olli collected 5446 points, Antti Miihkinen 5266 and Perttu Noponen 5182. In men under 23 Otto Kilpi won with 5260 points. Lassi Raunio got no result in pole vault. He injured himself in the hurdles (nothing too serious) and took a risk as he started at 420. That and 2.50 in 1000m would have [...]

It was a busy day today as all women combined events were held today. Naturally all men’s events started today, plus some individual events were arranged today as well. It was pretty cold inside the hall as the outdoor temperatures have been around -30 Celcius for some time already and they had turned extra heaters [...]

I will travel today to Jyväskylä today to follow weekend’s competitions on site. Here you have the link to the competition website, where you can find timetables and results (I hope in fairly real time). This year there are again ok amount of competitors in men’s class (12), whereas in the women’s class there are [...]

I had still yesterday most of my poles stored under a stand in an outdoor field and I went to move them finally indoors. The temperature outside had gone below -20 Celsius, so the lock to the door had naturally frozen. Hot water did the job, so we got the lock open. Next problem was [...]

Somewhat different city compared to the tiny Helsinki. I guess Helsinki would not even be counted as a city in China. Shanghai is a modern metropolitan that has grown really fast during the last couple of decades. Consequently there is not that much to see inside the city. Shopping is naturally something one can do. [...]