Winter ´10

It has been the snowiest winter in many years (since somewhere in the 80´s) in Finland. For an orienteerer that means alternative training or trainingcamps in southern Europe or other snowfree places. For me it has been mostly alternative training, besides the Sylvester 5-days in Belgium 26-31.12.09. Orienteering there was much better and interesting than I expected. Good maps and partly very detailed areas. Overall victory in front of P. Hendrikx and the becoming SV runner Ken Peeters.

Rest of the winter I´ve been at home in Sipoo. A lot more skiing than previous years, but not more than some 900km totally. A litte bit more fast running on tracks and powerblock-like weeks once a month. Overall good wintertraining without injuries. Looking forward to the upcoming season.

Season starts with Spring Cup

Only 8 days till my first competitions this season. everything has gone well in trainings, tough we still have a lot of snow in Sipoo. shape should be ok, but I´m not expecting that running is at my best in these first starts. waiting to get on the line..

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.