Decathlon Blog

Combined events carnival where held for the third time in Kauhava. Carnival started on Thursday with mini combined event competitions. Men had classic pentathlon that is long jump, javelin, 200m, discus and 1500m. I did not run the final 1500m, but competed in the other events. Winds were not on our side, but otherwise the [...]

Competed today in 110 m hurdles and pole vault. As you can see from the video, the hurdles did not go too well. I run 17,44 (-1,3) in slight head wind. I have not yet lost all the gained weight after the mid summer. Pole vault went better. This was the first time I jumped [...]

I was planning to compete especially in field events in this weekend’s decathlon in Vuosaari (Helsinki capital area championships). The first two events did not go too well for me, so I decided to abandon after shot put. My nervous system seems to be really tired since the muscles as such do not feel too [...]

Weather was already a lot better today with around 17 Celsius degrees and mainly clear sky. However, the schedule did not hold today either as we were around 30 minutes late in the end. We got a good spurt from Viipurin Urheilijat through out the 4×400m race. We came out as winners with a decent [...]

As you can see from the picture the weather conditions are not that great at the moment in Finland. Temperature was yesterday 10 Celsius degrees when we run 4×100m in the relay area championships in Lohja. In addition there were some showers. Worst was that the competitions were 55 minutes late when we got to [...]

Hurdles still are not for me. Did a similar run to Bourgoin today at Tapiot Games in Otaniemi Espoo. Funny that running even feels a bit better in between the hurdles than what it has felt like in the past years. However, pace is too slow thus the final hurdles are difficult. I walked to [...]