Lahti 28.6.

On Thursday there was BMX race in Lahti, Finland. I stopped by. I couldn't race but my job was run the random gate :) Say riders ready, about 5 seconds.. and then open the gate. There was 32 riders. So that is pretty good for local race!


We need to get some program which makes motos, cos writing those by hand takes too much time! Problem with using normal programs is that those are for 8 riders, and we have only gate for 4. And we run time trials before race and my opinion is that it's good that for next year UCI is going to not run time trials anymore.. Those are boring and not the game what bmx is about.

Some photos from race. Also couple links for more photos:


http://viljasen.net/bmxlahticup2012_1_3/



https://picasaweb.google.com/immo65/BMX_lahti_cup_2012_1#

Caravaner

I'm proud new owner of caravan/trailer! Soon it's time to ride again. I'm gonna head to Sweden with my new home. (Planning to head to Kungsbacka and Malmö). And this is my only home at the moment :) Actually that is pretty cool!

This made me little bit happier, after long time nothing happening. And I'm already able to stand on ball of the foot. I do feel some pain while doing it, but only week ago I couldn't do it even if I wanted.

Soon bike is gonna roll on.. :)

Links

Hello. There is couple links that one friend of mine found. First one is for Northern Europe Championship website. I hope we get team from Finland there.. and if someone is thinking that he/she can't take part there they need to remember that Outi was taking part to Worlds :)

http://www.nm2012bmx.se

Next ones are UCI track building guides:

Klick here: Guide 1
Klick here: Guide 2

Future for my leg isn't still clear. I need to get some doctors opinion, but we are having mid-summer party here in Finland (sun doesn't go down at all) so everyone are on vacation..

Diagnosis

Lets start the story from the day I hurt my leg. Friday 25th of May I crashed in World Championships. First I didn't recognize that my leg was hurt because I had pain in my head. When I tried to stood up I couldn't do it.

They took my doctor, who checked my leg (by looking from 2meter away from me). He said it's ok and I don't need x ray. After a while I went back to ask for crutches. Doctor looked my leg (now about 1m distance) and said it's ok. They promised that I can have crutches if I promise to return them. I did and I left with those.

Saturday I walked without crutches cos I had to get my leg working again to be able to race on Sunday. Sunday race in cruiser class went well. I guess I made few dance moves also in afterparty.

At monday I made it to the airport until problems started. I just couldn't walk at all. I had to use wheelchair.

In Finland I went to show my leg to doctor. She was looking my ankle. I said that pain is in crus.. She told that it look ok and I don't need to have x ray taken.

Now, when 3,5 weeks has passed, leg is still in pain. I went to doctor. He just look it for 2 seconds, said that it's in bone and told me to go to x ray. Lady who took x ray said that it's really clear that fibula is broken.

Only thing that I'm worried is that it has started to ossify and the bones are not exactly right position. Now I have 3 weeks time that I'm not allowed to practice (doctor already frighten me what might happen if I do practice before the bones are well ossified). I quess I just have to make up something else to do..

Crippled

While I am waiting for my leg to get better I have started to realize how much I am missing while I can't practice. Now I have been without riding BMX for 3 weeks. If I count how much I learned in 3 weeks in USA that is lot!

Lawn mower

On the way to home, I noticed this image in magazine :)

On earlier post is link to map of BMX-tracks. I forgot to mention that you all should check out track from northside of lake Garda. It's called Torbole, but actually the place is Busette adventure park!

p.s. Look the map with satellite view, so you can actually see the tracks.

BMX in Europe

While I'm in Italy, I decided to add Italian BMX tracks on my googlemap. Map is not ready. I don't even think that it ever will be. But if I could get European tracks on track I would be happy :)

Map is designed to work by privat persons adding and deleting tracks. I hope everybody could help me, cos it makes everyones lives easier.. atleast those who like to travel.

BMX racing tracks:
http://goo.gl/maps/t0wh

Lake Garda

I'm on holiday with my family in Italy. Still it's hard to walk because my ankle is somehow messed up. But no worries. My dad got little bit excited about BMX during worlds. Forexamble today we cycled 3 hours. All the time he was tell me about healty food, proteins etc. This is good start!

Video of cruiser class

Finally I got this here; video for World Champion Cruiser Class. There is only semifinal and final. I rewind this over again and again. There is good things but also it break my hearth everytime when I see those bad moves. I don't need to explane, you can see it :) Atleast I know what to practice next :)

Rating

This time it is pretty hard to explane situation at the moment. In magazine, there was a article about travelling to California, where I was mentioned (and where was my photos without my permission). I'm just kind of pissed of because of many reasons. Article was written with uncorrect information and I don't want to have anything to do with that. Just trying to say that there is more benefit to read Donald Duck than that article..

World of cycling

Crazy weekend behind. After hanging out with my friends I found myself 200km from my home. It's good that I never leave my bike, 'cos now I was able to continue my trip by train to Turku (another 150km travel).

Tv-group came to Turku to make program about BMX racing for tv-series called World of cycling. Wind was blowing and made rain goes almost in level. I started to get text messages that other riders aren't coming. Tv-group were coming anyways! What can I do? I put on riding gear and started to ride my bike. What?? I can't put weight on my right leg. I can't ride! I hurt it in worlds. But I hurt it on Friday and I was able to race cruiser on Sunday. Now it gives me no hope!

The most loyal BMX:ers arrived and raining ease off. I think we were able to get good set. This comes out in 2 weeks. Exciting!

In Finland if you want to take bike on train you have to pay for it. Even if you take BMX which fits to parcel shelf. But once you make it luggage by putting bike inside, forexamble some kind of sheet, you don't have to pay for it.