Spring Cup - CHECK!

Terä's international season started with a victory in the Spring Cup! The whole team had good performances and the first REAL race in Terä by Anders Nordberg ended up on the podium.

Spring Cup hasn't been an easy relay for Finns and the only Finnish winner before us is Vehkalahden Veikot. Terä's best place in Spring Cup (3rd) also dates back to same year, 2006. Now we had decided to take the win.

The relay had a really good start with Juha Sorvisto's fine job on the first leg. Juha finished about one minute behind the leading team. Juha was very pleased with his performance, especially after not that good run in the night-relay.

The second leg was Mr. Nordberg's show. He started fast and was leading the relay pretty soon. Anders really made the other runners struggling and only two teams were able to follow decently. After the second leg, it seemed that the battle for the win will be between three teams, PAN Kristianstad, IFK Göteborg and Vaajakosken Terä.

Third leg was a short one, but sometimes big differences can be made on third as well. Pasi was leading all the time and had good control, but wasn't able to run away from the others. So, it was Jonne's job to make us win.

Jonne, Jani's little brother, has been in really good shape on every spring but this spring he is maybe stronger than ever. He showed that during the tight last leg by doing his own job while PAN Kristianstad and IFK Göteborg made the fatal mistake (and got disqualified due to that). Jonne ran very well the rest of the course and we were very happy when he reached the last control. Finally the win is ours in the Spring Cup!

We got some more excitement as Jonne's SI-card didn't have a registration from one of the controls. The control was in a sleeping mode and wasn't working properly. The organizers went to forest after the relay and checked out that Jonne had been on the control. Whew.

Now the season has started and it was a nice that we started it in this spectacular way.

BTW...If you see this man, contact Finnish Police...