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Palataanpa bloggaamiseen suht tuoreella keikalla. Viime viikonloppuna Porissa järjestettiin CrossFitin ensimmäiset viralliset SM-kisat. Valitettavasti ennätin mukaan vasta ihan viimeisiin koitoksiin, koska päivä oli muuta keikkaa täynnä. Aika hurjalta vaikuttava laji, ja kuvaaminenkin oli haastavaa. Pimeä halli, jossa tapahtui paljon samaan aikaan. Piti koittaa olla olematta tiellä ja jotenkin saada selville, mihin asettua, ketä kuvata, ja olisiko joukossa paikallisia, jotka pärjää hyvin. Kyllä sieltä sitten jotain irtosi. Kortille tarttui mm. naisten sarjassa toiseksi kirinyt porilainen Tea Tähtinen ja miesten sarjan kolmas (myöskin Porilainen) Aleksi Vihonen.

CrossFit on ajankohtaista hieman henkilökohtaisemmastakin syystä. Olen nimittäin ilmoittautunut helmikuun alkeiskurssille. Vähän jo jänskättää! Aika raskaan näköistä oli tosiaan touhu lauantaina. Ehkä tämmöinen huonokuntoinen aloittelija pääsee kuitenkin “vähän” helpommalla. Jos tämä kuitenkin jää ainokaiseksi blogimerkinnäksi vuoden 2010 jälkeen, minua saa tulla etsimään Porin CrossFit-salilta. Olen mahdollisesti jumissa jonkun painon alla, tai vielä todennköisemmin pelkän tangon. Maanantaina se alkaa!

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The very first Finnish CrossFit championships were held last Saturday at Pori. I didn’t have much time for this gig, but just enough to shoot some frames of Tea Tähtinen and Aleksi Vihonen. They are both local athletes. Tea finished second in women’s competition, and Aleksi was third in men’s series.

New life in the pictures – and hopefully in this blog too. I had a fun gig last week at Sastamala. We got to meet new baby boys and girls and their parents. And some who were still waiting for their tiny new family members.

These photos were part of a reportage telling the story of this small hospital’s maternity ward. For some reason many moms to be want to come here to give birth. They find that a smaller hospital is more comforting and the staff has more time for them. Hospitals and towns have deals that say where their residents should go to give birth, but of course when someone comes to the hospital in labour she wont be turned away no matter where she lives. One woman even rented a cabin from Sastamala for the whole summer so she would be in the right place when the time comes.

Sometimes living two kilometers away from your favorite hospital isn’t enough to ensure that the baby is born in the hospital. The baby in the last two pics was in such a hurry that he was born in a taxi right outside the hospital.

Couple of weeks ago I spent a nice Sunday driving from Niinisalo to Ruosniemi with a handacar. It was fun. The sound that the thing made when going fast was like an old steam locomotive. All of it – the sound, the handcar, the unused railway – made me feel like I was handcaring myself backward in time. Or outside time, to be more precise.

It was fascinating to travel the 54 kilometers from Niinisalo to Ruosniemi in such an old fashioned way, with muscle power, on rails. And it was fascinating to watch how nature was taking over this once busy rail.

There hasn’t been any train activity on this route in 25 years. The rails and bridges and all would have been demolished totally if some active people wouldn’t have thought about making this a route for handcaring. I think that it was wonderful of them to save this railway. It would have been a real pity if it would have been destroyed.

So if you come around here and want to try handcaring here’s were you need to click. You don’t have to handcar the whole way, shorter trips are possible too.