Eeva-Liisa Hakala

Working for sports and forests

Just before storm... I had to hide myself in forest and keep down. As thunderstorm pass straight over me. Nice outdoor walk, exploring new paths as always  .

I finished my summer works. Then there were busy week. Some days at home, some days at sister´s ranch and some days at racing. Some mtb, mtbo and driving around Finland. No summer holiday for me this year  . Finally I ended back to studies...At Autumn I´ll have some interesting things coming on. Just try to get my exhausted body back in shape firstly and then I´ll be ready for everything again!

Missing already t...

This week workfields were in variable grounds. The last one were hilly. Carrying saw and doing the manual work in there required huge power taken out from your body. At least temperature had finally got down in numbers that are fine for forest workesr also. I believe that I´ll survive from my last work week in the forest that starts on ...

Photo: Aino-Maria Hakala

Few old posts can still be found from my blog. Mostly it has gone through a renew process. Meaning that last five years posts have been cleaned from here. Now I´m moving my updates- page text to this blog- page.

MTBO World Championships were held around Waldviertel forest in Austria. MTBO Team Finland had good days there. We achieved medals from elite, junior and youth categories. All competition facts can be found from here: http://www.wmtboc2018.at/wmtboc2018/ .

My role togehther with one great colleague was to take care of...

Walking at Koli´s great paths and views. After hard week in works (thanks for the heatwave!), needed something relaxing thing to do. And Sunday is going to be the "just for resting -day". http://www.koli.fi/fi

Photo: Raija-Liisa Hakala

A new competition category in mtbo Finnish Championships was held at yesterday, called extra long race. It is some 180% longer than long race. My Garmin showed that I went some 55km in the forest. It took almost three and half hours. I struggled at...

I thought that my World Championships were done. But never say never... Okey, for mtbo and it´s physically demanding career, it is over. There are still plenty of other hobbies where "to catch the gold" .

This weekend were held Swamp soccer World Championships at Hyrynsalmi (http://suopotkupallo.fi/in-english/). I ...

Works done. Now some biking.

I was MTBO Team Finland team official in Hungary EMTBOC and EJMTBOC. Some hard work yes, but mostly enjoyable time spent in nice surroundings. And the best thing for sure were the people who made that atmosphere. http://mtbo.hu/emtboc2018/en/

My team earned few medals. I´m happy from all those good performances m...