My 10th Europeans is over. I can’t believe it’s been that many! Well, it was a good one. Helsinki is really nice and the arena was great. I had pretty high hopes going into the competition as the training the weeks before went well, even though my back was bothering me. The week before I had to take two days off because of it, but that helped pretty much and during the competition the back actually felt better than in a long time.

The practices in Helsinki went well, but I had to fight a little with the axel. Short started out very well with a good lutz-toe combination, but then i stepped out on the axel, stupidly since it was a good jump... Then I got a little bit more trouble with the flip which I stepped out as well. The rest of the program went well though, and I was in seventh place going into the long program.

The long had it’s ups and downs, some good things and some bad things, but I felt pretty good skating it and that’s important for the future. Finishing 8th is one down from last year but still top ten. I didn’t have the best season or preparations, but it turned out ok. I know I can skate both programs much better though :) Now I have two more competitions before Worlds to show it.