Decathlon Blog

My decathlon competition did not go that well in Woerden; I could not reach my Finnish championships results in any of the events and lacked almost 500 points in total. Anyways, the competition was once again very well organised and weather was also favorable. You can check results from official site or from forecasting result [...]

In addition to Woerden, forecasting result service will also be available for Osaka. Service is ready for the games. Women’s heptathlon will start on the first competition day, that is on Saturday. Men’s decathlon will start on Friday. I will actually miss the whole Osaka games as I come from Woerden on Monday and I [...]

I got again an interesting query to be a model (remember Travelling with poles and a front cover story in NYT-liite couple of years back). This time I was used as a human model to make animations out of athletics performances. Animations will be used in the main celebration of Finnish Olympic Committees 100 years [...]

I participated to Woerden International combined events competition last year. This year I got a new chance to participate and naturally accepted the offer. Last year’s competition was really well organised, which is probably the biggest reason for this year’s huge number of enlisted participants (47 in men’s decathlon and 29 in women’s heptathlon plus [...]

I am a bit late with this post. We had Svenska Finlands Idrottsförbund (SFI) championships last Friday and Saturday in Vaasa. I was suppose to have total six events, but luckily skipped 110m hurdles on the second day.
On Friday I started surprisingly with 400m hurdles and improved my PB to 59,86. Previous and the only [...]

Today was very similar to yesterday; namely first four events were on a very good level but the final run lacked some power. Day started well with 16,09 (+0,9) on hurdles (I still hope to run it under 16s someday). Discus was okay; 39,81. Pole vault result was what I hoped for 465, but technically [...]

I had a superb start for my decathlon with 11,39 (+0,8) and then seven meters sharp (+0,6) in long jump, which is a new PB and first time ever over seven meters. Shot put was also good taken into account my previous performances; 12,72 with two attempts. In high jump I was once again in [...]

Heptathlon started today and Salla Rinne is doing pretty well; let’s hope it will last. Weather has changed to better. They say that usually wind is favorable on the back straight on mornings and still on afternoons but for the evenings it tends to turn. Track is really good so there is no room for [...]

I had today my last training session before season’s main event, namely decathlon next weekend in Kalevan Kisat that is Finnish championships. There is a Mondo surface in Lappeenranta Kimpinen track so I took couple of starts in Eläintarha indoor track as that is the only Mondo track in Helsinki area that is easily [...]