Decathlon Blog

I was one of the athletes promoting Kalevan Kisat yesterday in the Sello shopping mall in Leppävaara. Most of the promotion has now been done and it is time for the competitions to start. The Mondo track is in good shape. Leppävaara stadium was a challenging arena to renovate since frost has made the old [...]

Yesterday trained for the first time at the renewed Leppävaara stadium, which is soon ready for the Finnish championships Kalevan Kisat. Track is the same Mondo as last year in Peking. It feels soft at first but good when I tried running. Now is the time to buy your tickets!

Had a truly bad first day and a good second day in the area championships in Parainen on Tuesday and Wednesday. I had a massage on Monday, so was not recovered yet on Tuesday, but on Wednesday things looked already a lot better. Tuesday gave, with somewhat negligent attitude, 606 (-0,8) in long jump, 170 [...]

Another horrible run on 110 m hurdles. At the moment it seems to be the only event where I need to improve my technique to be able to perform well in the Finnish championships in three weeks time. Time 18,44 (-1,2) is far from tolerable level. Discus was stable but needs a bit more power; [...]

Techniques seem to be in good shape at least what comes to decathlon’s first day events. However, there is still some fatigue, but luckily not too much anymore. Weather was today almost perfect for decathlon. Running was already a lot better than on Wednesday (12,18 on 100 m) with 11,83 (+1,2). On long jump I [...]

I was planning to do couple of events in the Maken ottelut; a combined events competition. However, I only did 100m as I did not have time to wait for shot put yesterday and I fully skipped the competition today. I tried to make an easy run and the time 12,18 (-1,3) shows that. I [...]

Silver! After collecting three bronze medals (2003, 2006 and 2008) it was time for us (Ebso IF) to win silver in the men 4×400m relay. From 2003 onwards me, Jan Bosas and Robert Rotkirch have been part of the team every year and the fourth member has been different each time we have won medals; [...]

Sunny and warm weather seemed long gone when the Finnish relay championships started today in Raahe in a cold, windy and rainy weather. We (Esbo IF) run 4×100m and our target was to get to the finals. There were two heats. We run in the first heat where only two teams finished the race (+ [...]