Eeva-Liisa Hakala

Working for sports and forests

Last weeks the weather has been rainy and quite dark/ gray. I haven´t seen sun for a long time. But life´s not that bad! I just finished my practical training period. Now I´m suppoused to start planning my life a bit futher. Just don´t have energy for that, yet...

Needed something else to think about. What co...

During this week weather has get colder in Finland. Before snow is coming I found couple place to visit. As I decided to give a winter brake for my bike it meant exploring places by feet. City called Sulkava has many places worth to visit. I took two of those for the same day. Firstly I enjoyed marked routes at Vilkaharju. On the route you w...

It has come time to settle down for a bit. I started new practical training straight after arrived from Germany. First days were really exhausting. I was tired in every meaning of it. I didn´t had even energy to go for a food store. My mom came for a visit and saved me from starvation  .

There´s been a l...

Photo: Tuuli Lehtimäki

Mtbo Junior and Youth European Championships + mtbo World Cup. Those were the races held by Germany. Team Finland took part for there with almost 30 riders. So many youngsters need us to take care of all sort of things. Our...

Photo: Juho Övermark

We won yesterday the sesaon last game 2-0! Exciting game from the begining. My team game was bit confused from the start. It took time for us to get it better. 2-0 results tells the rest. We man...

Photo: Anne Annala

I´m sort of a person who drives herself towards new challenges. Not like I have to always try something new or extreme to stay on with life. But when life goes on you´ve just got to face t...

After I gained my energy levels bit higher it was time to head towards north. It meant some hiking and biking with friends in Western part of Finnish Lapland. Of course after disease it takes time before you should do any physical activities. Our trip to north is this time more like "holiday friendly" than any training camp. In this situation jus...

I found this photo from my sisters home. It has been taken in Istanbul. That was great trip some five years ago  ! Memories...

And then back to current moment. I already started my next trip after Lapland. This time I was supposed to spend nights in three different places Maalahti-Vesilahti-Vihti. Unfortunately I ha...

I went to North to have some holiday from everything. Not meaning that my life is somehow too exhausting. Well yes, sometimes it feels like that  . You just got to take time for yourself when you got a chance! So, I also went there to check out some possible future plans what comes to work. I´ll do my best and we´ll see w...