Go give me a vote for cyclist of the year award. So excited to be nominated for voting and cherry on top I'm holding the second spot. Voting is on until end of January. http://www.fillari-lehti.fi/Fillarilehti/Kysely.aspx

LOL, after all I didn't stayed that long in Finland. By that I mean I have booked a next trip. :) I will ride BMX next season. For some times I felt like I lost the spark on BMX. Until one morning I woke up at 7 o'clock and right that moment I knew I wanna ride, and if I wanna ride I got to train now, for that I would need a place where is summer and lots of friends.. New Zealand. I have been wanting to go back for so long. I had my best riding over there. I like most their training methods.. and I have most friends over there.

Couple days I let the thought settle. I asked around my friends what would they think. Everyone were excited. I found the flights and started booking. Then I realized that the baby needs to have a name for the ticket. So I had to came up with something... and she became Taika Isabella Leinonen. Tics and I had the name on paper and trip booked. Accommodation I took thru airbnb so my friends wouldn't need to listen the crying during nights. For a car I took a camper where is easy to hung out. The season in NZ is going on right now and they will have their nationals on April right before we come back.

​So I'm supposed to get back in shape. I don't even know what I'm allowed to do at the moment. In a month or so the doctor does the final check, but that's way too long to wait. I will train endurance and do gates and flat land BMX things. Also what I'm able to train all the time, no matter te baby, is mental training. That's the thing I'm good at, but I guess I can be even better :D I'm excitged, it's being too long till I was excited for a bmx. Maybe I get inspired to start from the bottom, or maybe the hormons hold me back during the pregnancy. 

The goal is to ride World Champs in USA. It's still too far ahead to let that matter. If everything goes wrong in NZ and I don't get to ride at all, it's all good. We will just enjoy the weather and the company. I'm feeling good! 

Year changed and so did my life. On first of January I gave a birth of a baby girl. She weighed 3894grams and was 51cm tall. Everyone in the room were amazed and they gave her 10 points and would have gave a plus if they would be allowed (I don't know about other countries but in Finland babies actually do gate a grade when they are born. It's about how active baby is, is skin good color or needs more oxyzen etc). Giving a birth was something I wouldn't need to experience.. some people say that's something every women needs to experience. For me it didn't give anything extra in my life, but the result, the baby. Girl is amazing. She is already two weeks old, of course I wanted to post this news immediately, so you see how busy the days has been.

Everyday life is making me wonder a bit. I have seen a little how it is, also everything is still gonna change, probably many times. At the moment my high lights of the day are: shower, 20min walks, quiet breakfast or using toilet all by myself. I'm not even dreaming to get all those done in one day. For summer and BMX I'm not expecting a lot. Previous summer one Finnish BMX mom showed that it's possible to keep on training and racing with 4 months old son. On the other hand there is many kind of babies, as well as there is moms. Telling the truth my baby has been so easy this far, but it doesn't mean that this wouldn't be tuff for me, at least a huge change.

During pregnancy or giving a birth my body didn't get much damage. I'm still not allowed to start to do sports and I can feel those 20min walks.. I was gonna start to do gate starts, but then I understood that those if something are "ripping" movement and I you really need abs for that. There wouldn't be no wonder about getting back to BMX if I would feel we have a good group, good positive vibes and team spirit. And there probably is something like that going on, but I'm not part of it. It's not a group where I belong to. I dream about those holiday meets we had in California on the track. Everyone brought a food and we ate it together. Had fun as a family, a huge family! I hope we will have that in Jyväskylä, in my home town. Just need to get BMX started. The cycling people I have got to know from here are so nice. If I don't get them in to BMX, maybe they get me in to their cycling sports... As we know, it's not that hard to get me excited :D

Life is good <3