Three men from Terä to Team Finland in EOC Antti Anttonen, Jani Lakanen ja Pasi Ikonen were chosen to Team Finland in EOC. It is nice to see young runners getting to higher level and making some internal competition in Terä's team. Congratulations to all the three men in blue and white, but especially to Antti "Nandi" Anttonen!

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pictures from Portugal

                                              shining brothers training to stand on the "hiisi"stone

          young runners working to get to the top while the one who is already there is chilling out

two young Teräsmen(superman in english) in Portugal

Aapo got to Portugal late on wednesday 22nd of february. After nice one hour running the next morning on beach, trails and paved surface it was time to pick up Samuel from the airport and join ADFAs training. Samuel is such a pioneer, he managed to get himself to Lissabon just on his own even though this is almost the first time abroud for him. Only broblem at airport was that Mistifys(antioxidant drink from Synergy) stayed in the security controll but luckily at openminded Amsterdam Samuel found some nice compensation. 

ADFA is a great club with great team spirit that has a group of motivated and talented young runners. So pretty same as Terä :) On program was only easy running after local style activation(venkoilu) warm up. It has some similarities with the ones JaMMu has tought for us. On the run Garmin showed around 4:00min/km. We did not run that easy speed more than 7km because we knew the best trainings and a competition were just coming. 

On friday we finally got to real business and any orienteerer might know the feeling when you get to orienteering again after a long time. It felt like heart coming back home when we got to forest with the map. Actually Aapo did not stay in his shirt and he lost it. Luckily Aapo got a new shirt pretty soon :) On sunday was time for expacted competition in juicy fast terrain of Marinha Grande. Both did a good run but Aapo was little bit dissappointed because he did not win Thierry yet. Maybe the reason for that was Aapos problems with springallergyreactions or that Thierry has been professional around ten yers. Samuel had his first competition both abroad and in Teräs shirt. Even though making a good run in these new challenging circumstances did not satisfy him either because we are so hungry to get better!

Then next morning at hotel breakfast we saw orienteers like Olav Lundanes, Anders Nordberg, Carl Waaler Kaas... So we cannot complain about the training company we have this week ;)

Junior World Champion Pavel Kubát joins Vaajakosken Terä

Vaajakosken Terä will get significantly stronger, when JWOC 2010 gold medalist Pavel Kubát joins the club. Pavel has plans to study as an exchange student at the University of Jyväskylä during the year 2013. This means that Pavel will get to know Kanavuori and other Terä’s training terrains well.

Welcome to the blue and white Terä!

Related material:
Story about JWOC 2010
Pavel's WoO profile