13 Sep 07 100 minutes Decathlon (part 1)

This is my first post about the 100 minutes Decathlon. I am writing about this special event because on the next 27th of September we are organizing it, here in my town: Besana in Brianza and I am going to compete.

I have to say that I am a great fan of this kind of events, because I think they can make Combined Events and, Athletics in general, more understandable to non technical people. A lot of people, infacts is used to watch football matches (especially in Italy ) that last 90′ minutes plus 15′ break… well, 100 minutes decathlon is exactly what they are used to: 85′ of athletics action and 15 minutes break!

In this post I would like just to recount my first (and only) experience in this event. It took place in Pavia in 2004 and it was amazing for me; I competed together with Luca Ceglie and Marzio Viti.

Here are my results:

100\\\' Decathlon: Pavia 2004

n°	event	result	points
1	100	11.23	810
2	LJ	6.93	797
3	SP	14.98	788
4	HJ	1.80	627
5	400	58.08	481
6	110HS	15.16	830
7	DT	40.71	669
8	PV	4.50	770
9	JT	59.66	733
10	1500	5.16.20	470
11	TOT	6975

Since then I wished to repeat that good experience, but always had some other reason to prepare or to compete for :-(. So this is the the time I was waiting for long! This time we will be 6 athletes (unfortunately i don’t know yet exactly who), so there will be 2 heats, each one for 3 athletes. I’ll write a single post just to explain some technical matters; for now I’m just doing some predictional evaluation.

The most important thing to say is that I will compete in the Talence Decastar just 4 days before (22nd and 23rd), and I am not supposed to be as rested as I should be!! I just hope to have a lot of fun in this 100′ Decathlon, in order not to feel too much tired. Anyway, I would like to use a very different approach for my 400 meters; last time I run in 58”08, that is almost 10 seconds slower that my PB!! It was because I did not know how I would have felt for the ’second day’. This time, I’ll try to get a lot of points more in 400, and hope not to loose so much in the last 5 events. Considering my actual good condition in middle distances runnin, 52” could be the right time.

Anyway, we have still to see how I am coming out from that Decastar and then maybe do some more realistic considerations! My coach would say: “Non facciamo i conti senza l’oste”!!!

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