I married my princess :)

This year has only started and it has happend a lot. In the beginning of january I were in Portugal with other elite orienteerers from Finland. My 10 days camp in Evora and Algarve was successful. Many good trainings i terrains allowing high speed and orienteering challenge. After that two weeks of basic "home training" and then off to Mexico. Training there was a lot different from what I would have done in Finland at this time. That was an important factor. Mexico was very nice and lot of interesting Maya-stuff. The ultimate highlight was our beach wedding in the sunset 27.1 :)
Now back home and back to "normal" training conditions. Tomorrow ski-orienteering competition middle distance in Janakkala, nice.

end of year 2008

My training has gone very well the last 2 months, so I´m looking forward to incoming trainingcamp in Portugal 2-12.1 2009. I have done alot of different strenght training and basic endurance training now, so from the beginning of next year I will do less strenght. Hope this winter will be a little more snowy than the last one, so that skiing is possible in southern Finland.

FOC

26,3km mass-start orienteering in suomusjärvi. i planned to run as long as i could feeling good, and then jog the rest. it went very well the first 2h15min, but then, in the "butterfly", (aprox. 4km to finish) i had to let the group of 7 runners go. until then i had made a lot of work. my orienteering was highly concentrated the whole way, and i made only a few seconds mistake. if i hadn´t EOC coming up, i would´ve attacked harder earlier in the race. this was a good training, now a couple of days recharging and then one or two harder trainings.

good week behind

i just came back from a 80´ running at low pace. it felt really good. it´s quite sure i´m going to run the FOC ultra in sunday.

WOC´08

this is my main goal this season. to be at my best in the middle of july means hard training after EOC. jukola is the only competition i´m going to run at high level before WOC, and of course the WOC qualifications in the end of june. i´m going to train in sipoo most of the time, but also a few days in åland (midsummer weekend).