Unexpected
The Finnish Orienteering Spring really started one week ago in superhyper-feelings. I had not the best feeling physically, and made even one bigger mistake. Still, I could catch a clear win. This was...
View ArticleStill alive
I have spent the last few days at my home and now I am finally getting healthier. I have enjoyed the nice moraine terrains and the training speeds show, that the situation is not too bad after all. At...
View ArticleQualified :) or just qualified :| ?
Greetings from EOC!The qualification races of forest distances are now over and my performance was good enough to achieve only 10th place on middle distance. The result does not satisfy, but the...
View ArticleFreaky things
Hi!At the top edge of my pages it says: "for freaks mainly". That hasn't held true very much, so I think I have to correct the situation. This came up to my mind on Monday when I was checking my old...
View ArticleYlläs Online
Ylläs seems to be the number one still. Training facilities are great and even the weather has been rather good. After one week of good training, my heart rate starts to find the right rhythm and my...
View ArticleYlläs finished
The training-camp in Ylläs is now finished. This time I succeeded to exercise more or less reasonably than on last summer's Ylläs-camp. Back then I had such training goals as banking up climbing meters...
View ArticleWeek to the Final!
The car has again left from Jyväskylä and next stop is, again, Vääksy. Tomorrow we'll have the usual press-conference, flight to Switzerland and accomodating ourselves there. On Thursday some last...
View ArticleMusta vuori
For the first time on Musta vuori (=Black hill/mountain). It's true in de facto and when it comes to mental issues. I printed the training Lasse had organized in the forenoon and headed out for the...
View ArticleYou may laugh!
Here you can see some typical Vihanti-terrain. This is a good location to start preparations for next year's WOC-long, don't you think? I am actually serious about this. With two o-sessions done on...
View ArticleTrip to Turkey starts to be in final
Hello!My trip to Turkey starts to be in final and I am soon travelling back to snowy Finland. I will make a news with maps and photos in the end of the week.BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED ME....
View ArticleAntalya
Hello!The last two weeks I have spend in Antalya, Turkey, for the bad times' honour. In fact, this trip was planned to do with Minna, but now it turned out to be only a one-man trip. Shit happens. I...
View ArticleAlternative Sports Psychology, part 1
Situation report from the deep water diverI am really living the most troubled times of my life, but that's not a wonder. I am alone, without direction and the newspapers have written all kinds of...
View ArticleAlternative Sports Psychology, part 2
Recognizing the problemsWas it too hard and too negative in the first part? Did you feel sad and pity for the man in pains? Well...don't bother to do that because this second part will be even...
View ArticleProcess finished
Howdy ho!Finally I have been able to deal with all the issues and new course has been set. It took only six months, my dearest one, lots of money and reputation. So, I survived with little damage ;-)....
View ArticleThe Kalevala Day and Pearly Month of February
The conditions are springlike, moods high and orienteer's waiting for the summer. But what shall do the ancient hero Väinämöinen, an eternal wizard and how is the shape of Joukahainen? And what is...
View ArticleShit happens
They tell that shit happens. And this time it happened just before the imprortant training camp. On Friday I went to a doctor in order to manage travelling to the training camp. I got the antibiotics...
View ArticleBachelor Boy
The spring is showing it's first real signs here in Lampinsaari as well. Due to a certain misfortune I had to stay here for a extra month. My operated arm became inflamed some ten days after the...
View ArticleAcceleritas!
The spring is getting warmer and warmer! In today's forest-interval session both the weather and speed were at the top. Actually the training weathers have been rather okay during the last three weeks...
View ArticleKainuu
Damn it feels good to be in Kainuu and enjoy some great company. Sun is shining, Finns are doing great in WOC and it's nice to do some races without any goals (except finding the controls quickly). As...
View ArticleBronze Medal from Finnish Champs Middle Distance and Gold from Relay!
Jiihaa!Photo: Tuomo PuskalaMore story (in Finnish) at my online-training-diary on My-O -pages and the maps you can check from the right. Now I need to get some sleep before the relay (last night I...
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