Decathlon Blog

The traditional athletics season ending for Swedish speaking clubs in Finland; namely SFI seriefinal in Mariehamn, was held on Saturday. For the first time for a long time the weather was nice; basically as nice as it can be in the middle of September in Finland. In SFI-seriefinal clubs fight against each other in senior [...]

Throwing decathlon was lots of fun once again although it did not go too well for me this year. Compared to the forecast I did worse in every event; I had some technical difficulties as you can see from the below video Also check some photos from my flickr Heinälammin heitto-ottelu photo set. Results [...]

Heinälammi throwing decathlon 2008 will be held tomorrow. I need to take it a bit easier this year so that I will not stress my Achilles tendon; which is, by the way, feeling good after the sclerotherapy. There is a forecasting result service in Finnish for the throwing decathlon at http://www.ergorej.net/heittoottelu/. I will try to [...]

I have had problems with my right Achilles tendon (the left one was operated twice two years ago) so I went to see the doctor some time ago. Doppler ultrasound showed that there was no ruptures, and thus no need for operation. Instead I went today to ultrasound guided sclerotherapy, where medicine is injected into [...]

I came back on Tuesday from Woerden and went basically straight to the SFI-serien’s qualifying area final, which was held in Leppävaara. We had some problems with getting our poles to the airplane in Amsterdam. They said they would not fit in and proposed freight, which would have been really expensive. Luckily the employee on [...]

My second day did not start too well. Hurdles was the one event I waited the most, and finally that was the event that failed the most. I run 16,82 (-0,6). Discus was season best; 36,60; but that mostly tells how bad discus season I had. That will not even give 600 points, which is [...]