Now I feel dissy. I'm just about to fall a sleep. Need to get in to the plane first tho :) Tired but happy. Too bad I can't stay here for longer (mostly because it's so unhealthy over here)
Time to get high.. about an hour before my flight departs. I'm kinda in hurry to get this posted. I will post better overview of the trip once I'm back in Finland. Fast thinking takes me back to sheep hills. That was amazing! Also my bike is unbelievable. I wouldn't change one part of it!!! RedLine Carbon <3 I were riding on the track before I left and manuals were the best, so last chance keep up..
Now I feel dissy. I'm just about to fall a sleep. Need to get in to the plane first tho :) Tired but happy. Too bad I can't stay here for longer (mostly because it's so unhealthy over here)
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I have 5 days left in USA, or 3 if we count only full days! I have just got me into manuals (thanks to Marc, my Spanish coach in Finland), even jumping is getting there.. and it's time to leave. I think that's how it always goes. When it's time to leave you push yourself to do more. I guess we should live each day like it would be our last. On the other hand , if I would know this would be my last day I think I would just go and have some relaxed riding, eat good food and rest in sun.. damn, but that sounds like what I'm doing everyday :) When I get back home I will have some tight schedule. I will be back on 12th around mid night. I will stay in Helsinki for few days coz I promised to go to one TV show. That will be filmed on 14th. After that I head to Jyväskylä (to my parents). Come back to airport on 19th. when we head to Spain. Will will have camp with finnish bmxers till 25th. Right now I'm kinda tired of travelling so I changed my New Zealand trip to be one week later. Starting on 9th of Feb and will head back "already" on 3rd of May. By then I bet tracks in Europe are going on hot already :) Last weekend I went to see SX to Anaheim. That was the best SX I have seen. And stoked for the amount of people the Stadion takes. It doesn't matter how well you try to see when you park your car, it's unpossible to find when you are leaving!
Next day I got back to Sheep Hills. It was full, al the pros.. Even BMX Plus magazine were there to take photos. Amazing jumps, flips and spinning everywhere. The best trick of all was and is always going to be Superman!! I had my camera in my hand ready to take some shots and I started to think; I don't have to, I can just enjoy this. And so I did. WONDERFUL! (Afterwards I feel little bit dumb I didn't take the photos, but if someone wants to see them you can go and buy BMX Plus and check them from there) Feels like year 2014 gave me totally new gear. Riding has being better, but OMG how I liked the sheep hills!! I got good kicks from jumping and also manuals felt smooth. I hope I could go there every day. Just in case someone wants to go there but doesn't know wnere the spot is. It's located at Huntington Beach. Crossroads of Brookhurst and Hamilton. Park behind Carl's Jr. Walk over the bridge and turn to right on dirt road. Keep on going down until you find them. There is something for everyone. Own pump track for kids (like 3 to 6 years old). Step by step you find bigger jumps. All the way to the top. There was really many pro riders, I don't know freestyle guys names, but at least Cristian Becerine was there. There is heaps of tools so everyone can work on the jumps. If you break it you fix it. And no one goes and steals those! That's awesome. Also back home boys find new jumps which someone had started but not finished. I'm really dissapointed I didn't get myself to jump them :/ It's great to see that I have got some feeling of jumping to the track too. I hasn't happened before. Just by accident I jump on track. Didn't make the whole jump, but I knew what I was doing! Really happy about it :)
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Outi Leinonen
Outi is a BMX racer. She got serious brain injury in car accident 2004. She has represented Finland in World Champs 2012-2015. Been the first rider from Finland ever been in BMX race World Champs and the only one to make it to final. Cycling Club
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