I’m waiting for the event photos, and it will be evident, I’ll post about it; anyway, it was raining a lot, and less that 10 degrees, certainly not a good day for a decathlon.

Despite that, Lukas, Matteo and Paolo pushed all their best energies; they absolutely had no fear , great job guys!

Results: note that they had some points penalty because they exceeded the 100 minutes for some seconds

I’m sorry for the low image quality

You can download the much better PDF version

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

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”!!!

In the meanwhile, I’m preparing my next competitions, the last two decathlon of my strange season. I’m waiting for some answer from an important Decathlon Meeting… guess wich one .. if I will not be there, I’ll take part to the Italian Decathlon Club Champioships, trying to improve my SB… or PB, sure!

Then, on the 27th of September, me and some other Italian Decathletes, will perform a 100 minutes decathlon. I’m looking forward to do that! Last time (2004) I did it I set 6975, so it could be a good chanche to improve that result. I’ll write some posts about that