16.02.2005
Race in the Reit im Winkl was little disappointment for me, i except it more after very good training camp in the Formazza. Maybe the race was little bit too early for me and i wasn´t recovered yet. My feeling wasn´t normal in the race movement wasn´t so strong as usually, i also make one big mistake after last downhill, so my place was 17th. 0,16 second after last qualifier. After last downhill i taked wrong classic course which was full of snow and i lost my speed, hopefully next time i´ll make right decissions.
Now im in the Oberstdorf preparing for the next tuesdays big race. I´m very confident of my performance, because i reached so good result whith bad feeling in the Reit im Winkl. My first goal is the reached place in the top 16. Little bit resting and few good trainings and i will be ready to fight.
09.02.2005
After Nove Mesto I traveled to Pragelato to watch next year olympic tracks. At sunday I took part in the team sprint, but my performance was really bad. Maybe the reason was high altitude or the long journey at friday, hard to say. After the race I was disappointed and unsure. Afterwards I can say that staying home would have been much better option for me.
After Pragelato I was very tired and it was very hard to prepare for national champs. In the national champs I was little bit suprised of my performance, because feeling was very bad. In the indivudual sprint at saturday I finished the qualification at 2nd place. I get it my place in the final very easily, but in the final I made lot of tactical mistakes and made it to the 3rd place behind Keijo Kurttila and Lauri Pyykönen. But after all I was happy that I got my first national champs medal, whit bad feeling. At sunday I started in the team sprint whit Matti Heikkinen. We got our place in the final easily, even though my performance wasn´t so good. In the final my skiing was little bit better and Matti was extremely good so we where fighting even for gold medal, but in the final sprint we lost silver medal whith 3 cm.
Straight after national champs I travelled to Italy to prepare for world champs. Our camp was in the small village in Formazza valley. There were extremely good conditions for training, tracks were well prepared and weather was perfect. Our group was very small. 5 skiers, 1 masseur and 2 servicemen. The place was in the middle of nowhere so we had a lot of time for our own, lot of reading, videos and computer games. The week was very relaxing and I made lot of good training so im very confident about my performance in the next race Reit im Winkl and in Oberstdorf.
Yestedray I arrived from Formazza and now I´ll spend a few days at home and on Friday I will travel to Reit im Winkl. Hopefully my good training period will show up in the results. After Reit im Winkl I will travel straight to Oberstdorf.
18.01.2005
Lot of is happened after last news. My competition trip in China was very succesful and great experience. First race in Beijing was very hard for me. I won the qualifications so i was very disappointed,when I broke my pole in the start of 1/4 final. I was so sure that i could win the race. Second race in the Changchun at last day of the year was much better for me. My equipments worked very wel, so i win the qualifications and also the whole race. After the race was very nice to celebrate new year. Last race of my trip was 50 km, but i took it very slowly, it was only training for me. Most of the time i spended whith my new friends from Norway Öisten Pettersen, Johan Kjoelstad and whith German guys Toni Lang, Christian Schieler. Trip was very hard, but im satisfied that i did it.
After China i travelled to Estonia for sprint world cup, but race was cancelled. The reason of cancellation was hard wind and rain, which melted snow. In the race morning wind was so hard that lot of trees was felt down. Three trees where also felt over the track so it was also safety issue. In the morning run i had lot of problems to stand, cause of really hard wind. It was 4 days travel for nothing, unfortunately. Also the next race in Praha was cancelled and changed to Nove Mesto.
So my last race was in the Nove Mesto. Everything was like made for me, track was very good and not too long, so i waited very good result. I started my qualifications very well , but in the last down hill i maded mistake and losed my speed. The result was 23th only 0,5 seconds to best 16, who qualificate to heats. I was very disappointed after race, it was really hard to watch heats, because i wanted to be there. Best thing of the race was that the winner was Johan.
In the 1st of January i started my job, which i told before. My company is Exel and my job there is product line manager. So i work whith cross-country, Nordic Walking and inline-skating poles. My job is half day job, so i can train and compete whith full power.
17.12.2004
Very nice week behind, Asiago sprint was succesful for me. Specially the qualification went very well, i reached 2nd position behind Trond Iversen. It was really nice to race there, because it´s almost home track for me. In the Quarterfinal i reached 2nd position behind Odd Björn Hjelmeset. The semifinal was little bit too hard for me, but i reached 4th place and earned place in the B-final. B-final started very well but in the last upphill my backbone broked so i reached 8th place. The race gived me lot of self-confidence for classic race, which is very important, because in the world championships sprint will be whith classic style. The trackprofil will be there almost same. My next race will 29th of december in the Peking (www.volvoskisprint.com) and 31th in the Chanchung. Unfortunately i don´t race tomorrow in the Lapinlahti, because i´m still very tired of my trip.
07.12.2004
Last saturday individual sprint was held in very flat track in the center of Bern. My qualifications started very well, afterwords i can say that i started too fast. I was in the good speed about 1km, but then i had big problems, because of little bit too fast start. I losed many second in the last meters, but still i get it my first worl cup points this year (position 29th.). In the next race i hopefully can manage whole track.
At sunday was team sprint and i race it whit Lauri Pyykönen. Our strategy was started slowly and save energy, it worked very well. We were all the time in the main group and saved lot of energy for last rounds, but unfortunately Lauri felt down just before last change, before that we were in the 3rd position. So I skied my last rounds 100meter behind main group. I think that whit out Late´s accident we had it very good change to qualificate.
My next race will be in Asiago at 14th and 15th day. I will travel there at next saturday, so i can make few trainings there
23.11.2004
Finally here in my hometown is posibility to train on snow, big thanks to Laajavuori Oy. Now i´m concentrate to my studies and train in my hometown. Hopefully my next race will World cup in Bern. This week will include lot of hard training, next week well be much easier. Hopefully at weekend i can make sprint training with Jirka Ilomaeki. Last week i also maded work contract so i´ll start my halfday work at January. Later i will tell more about my job.
14.11.2004
Checked out my new fanclub sites http://jari-joutsen-fanclub.org
Thanks for the group who made the site.
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29.9.2004
Small training camp with Juha Bäck and Lauri Pyykönen went well. Hard interval training with Late was very good for me. Now I´m travelling to the Ramsau for summer skiing camp. My camp well last 12 days and hopefully it gives me more performance for season opening in Dusseldorf. The theme of the camp is endurance training by skiing. I try to keep my speed and force level at same, hopefully it will works. Later pictures and news from camp.
16.9.2004
After last writing happened a lot. I took part in classic rollerski race at 28. of August. In this race i broke my strap and have to ski little bit whith out srap, that cause my inflammation in my vagina tendinis. It took over one week to fix problem whith help kortison. 11th of August i tooked part of Finnish world cup qualification in Jämi whith very good result. In the qualification i reached 1st position and get it place in Finnish team. In the race my skiing felt very good, even i had lot of problems whith my wrist and achilles. 12th of August there was classic sprint. In this race i was second in qualification and finally my position was 3th, cause i fell down in final. But after all i was very satisfied of my skiing, whole weekend was success and gave it answers to me, that i have done right things in my training. My next hapening is my friends weddings at next weekend and short training camp at next week whith Lauri pyykönen and Juha Bäck.
23.8.2004
Last weekend i tooked part of Rossignol summer camp in leppävirta ski arena. The Highlight of the weekend was sprint race at saturday. My Performance in race was very good, in qualification i reached 1st place. Two first heats very easy for me and so get it place in a-final. Final was much harder, i had a lot of fight with Keiju Kurttila, but finally i won the heat. I´m very satisfied for my weekend, one good race and lot of good training.  |
29.7.2004
Roller ski World cup in Latvia was good experience to me, thanks to my service group Jari Olli (coach) and Tero Joutsen (team captain). My race didn´t start so well on friday i reached 9th position in 10 km race. Saturday was much better to me i was 3th in sprint, that was my first time in rollerski world cup podium, so i´m satisfied. On sunday was 30 km pursuit, unfortunately i had quite big time gap to podium place. Together with Dirk Grimm we cathch one skier so my position was 8th. I´m satisfied cause 30 km isn´t my distance. No I´ll concentrate to train for winter, so my next race will be 21th August in Leppävirta ski tunnel. Tomorrow i´ll go Leppävirta for 4 days training camp.
18.7.2004
Now I have started my summer season. Last week was first rollerski race in Joutsa, organiziced by my new team Joutsan Pommi. The race went very well for me and I reached 1st position. Last week I also competed in ski tunnel. The race was normal sprint in Jämi ski tunnel. In Qualification i reached first position with Jirka Ilomäki. In final result i reached 4th position. I´m still very satisfied my performances, cause I have trainied quite hardly last weeks. Next weekend i will compete in rollerski world cup, which will be in Latvia. In Latvia i will made three races 10 km, sprint and 30 km. Hopefully i reached place in podium.
24.6.2004
Last week I changed my club. Next year I will compete in Joutsan Pommi. Whit this choice I could also compete in very good relay team. One of the next years aim is sprint-relay. Last week i also took part in world biggest orienteering race, called Jukola. I competed in team Karjalan prikaati. The race was very nice experience, our teem reached position 609th. I´m very satisfied of my own race, i passed over 150 teams in my part even if i maded many mistakes.
22.5.2004
Adventure race is over and I´m still a live, so everything went very well. Our team won the race with 1h 30 min time gap. Race was very hard because weather was very cold and rainy. My part of the race took 5h 30 min, unfortunately we lost lot of time, cause of bad orienteering. The Race was very nice experience, maybe in future I will compete more in these kind of races.
18.5.2004
My training season is now started. At this moment I mainly training strenght and little bit
runing. Tomorrow I will compete in adventure competition, this will be my first this kind of race, so I´m quite unconfident. The weather broadcast promise very bad weather, so this race will be very hard. I will be member of KT-sport team. We will make this race with 6 person, so my part will be about 5 hours. I think it´s enough for me :). I will tell later how to race went.
16.4.2004
Season is finally over, my last race was 3.4 in Obertauern. The race was Redbull Nordix skicross sprint, I reached 10 th position in this race. I had a little bit bad luck in quarter finals, i fall down in second jump. Later will be pictures from this race.
19.2.2004
Finally i update these sites, lot of things has happened since last time. Most important race was national championships where I reached 8th position. The race was really difficult for me, cause I crahshed litte bit in every start. In B-final I broked my pole so i reached only 8th position. Last weekend I maded to national races, which where good training for next world cup. I won both races and my performance look good at this moment. My next races will be Trondheim and Lahti World cups.
07.01.2004
Happy new year for every one. Christmas time is now behind and most important competitions are in front. After Scandinavian cup I was sick almost a week. After sickness training was quite hard, but now everything is looking good. Yesterday was our areas biggest X-country race,relay between communes. My next race is Scandivian cup in Valkeakoski 17 - 18th of January. National Championship s will be one week after.
08.12.2003
At this moment almost everywhere in southern Finland is big problems with snow conditions. Last weekend I organized with my friends training competition in my hometown, cause so many race where cancelled. My next race will be Scandinavian cup in Sweden. This compition is transferred in Östersund, cause snow conditions are so bad in Mora. Hopefully there is good conditions.
19.11.2003
Season is allready started, but for me the start wasn´t succesful. World cup opening was really hard for me. I had big problems with my skies, so result was very bad second last Finnish skier, and position 61. After Dusseldorf I maded two weeks Training in Levi. In the end of the camp I competed in Saariselkä Fis-race. Now I´m try to recover after hard training and waiting snow in my hometown. Next race is maybe at saturday in Piispala, if they can prepare the track.
14.10.2003
Season start is getting all the time closer, at now its less than 2 weeks to start. But I'm satisfied my trainings are went well. Last two weeks I have made lot of hard interval trainings and i feel, that these have worked well. Tomorrow i will go to Vuokatti, there I will concentrate on snow training.
03.10.2003
Now my websites are finally open and I´m very satisfied. You can read here things what is happened for me
At today I came from Vuokatti I maded there 4 days training camp and it went it quite good. My training and feeling is geting all the time better, hopefully it will continue. One of the reason is my sickness wich was 3 weeks ago after that i was really down. Couple of days after my sickness was world cup qualification in Vuokatti Ski tunnel. I reached there 3th position and that was enough and qualificated. So now the season start early, Dusseldorf World Cup is 25th and 26th. of October.
Summer
I started my new season at may by holiday in French Riviera with my friend Antti Kuisma. We also took part in rollerski competition, so we didnLt only lie on the beach. The start for the season was good I won the race and Antti was 2nd. After this was really nice the start training for next winter. In july I competeted two races in Lanzenhein, germany. My performance was again good i won both races. Later in June I maded trip with my friends to italy, i maded there three races my positions was 6th in Piglio., 2nd. and 1st in Asiago. My trainig went it all the time quite good and I enjoyed all the time. The weather here in Finland was really good lot of sun shine, so i spend it lot of time in the beach. Unfortunately i also have to maded some school works, but not too much.
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