The search query includes also ‘zehnkampf’.. if you see it passing through you’d be very lucky!

Ehi, today I have an answer…. at least for what concerns the Winterberg track.
No, in Winterberg it is NOT SO DANGEROUS, because you have enough track, after the finish line to be able to stop just going uphill, but please beleive me, it would be much better to brake at least when you are still because it would not be funny to go backward at 100 km/h…

Just to recap in a few words, today we had the second training session before the 4 men bob Europe Cup.
In the first run, pushing the bob, three (yes, all the three brakemen) newbies (me included, in a sense) and the youngest one at the brakes, I was the 3rd, just in front of him.
Before starting, we asked him if everything was ok with the brakes and it seemed to be (really) OK… but it wasn’t. Just a couple of meters after the finish line I got up a little bit outside the bob, just to make his life easier while braking; unfortunately he couldn’t find the handles, went through the parking area, and shouted: “Where are the handles?”… too late.

The worst thing would have been to go back downhill, pass again the finish line in the opposite direction and go up 3 or 4 corners backward .
Finally, when we were still,  I was able to turn by myself and pull the brake, so we stopped up there, waiting for some men of the track who helped us sliding back to the parking area.

Uhfff… it would have been more dangerous in some other tracks; for the next time I’ll remember to really check if everything is ok and eventually to pull that handle a little bit in advance!

It was not a great performance (7215 points) but it was enough to win a valuable national title.

I was recently watching time ever records in number fo national title wins…. well, I’m still very far from Franco Sar, who won 8 times between the 50s and the 60s

Anyway, this title was a nice shine in the dark sky of my season, due to a long time injury and poor of good performances. The only good race, during the last Decathlon was a PB in long jump: 7.25. It already time to thinj about the next season and start working hard!

Eptathletes after Osaka Eptathlon 2nd day.

Let’s guess who they are! Read the following names in order of appearence from right to left (fotofinish rules )))

Vasilikí Delinikóla, Linda Züblin, Yvonne Wisse, Aryiró Stratáki, Jessica Samuelsson, Olga Kurban, Ida Marcussen, Karolina Tyminska (I suppose… ) preceding for some centemeters Sonja Kesselschläger, Irina Naumenko and Nataliya Dobrynska.

It would be nice to have them all! OK, I’ll search some other photo

Post Update…

As promised, I found another one

Same order: Marie Collonvillé, Simone Oberer, Aiga Grabuste, Linda Züblin, Carolina Klüft, Jessica Ennis, Sylvie Dufour, Lyudmila Blonska and Kelly Sotherton

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

So thank you very much Francis for the passion that you put in our Combined Events world, and, sure… your photos are really cool!

Here you can find Francis’ photos of Decastar , and here his Decaboura Project Website.

These pics were taken from Talence Decastar Official Site

I immediately felt some pain, but not so much, because my foot was warm.. The problem revealed after the Shot Put event, when, warming up for the High jump, I could not even lean my heel on the floor.

I tried to resist, in order to finish the first day and waiting for the next morning, so I cleared 1.74, 1.77 and 1.80 at the first attempt (it never happens , mumble mumble…) and stopped that event. Later I run the 400 and hoped…

… not well enough! Yesterday morning my heel conditions were even worse (as I expected, I admit) and I could not run 110 hurdles, neither do Pole Vault. The good thing is that I set my PB in Discus: 45.15 and did a good Javelin: 57.74.

The crowd was terrific here in Talence, and that is the reason why I would have loved to finish 1500 meters, together with such strong guys. So I started and struggled for 1000 meters, using 1 leg and a half, before not being able to go on .

It was a pity not to be able to set a decathlon PB here in such an amazing challenge but I am very happy to have been here. Hey: this meeting is really fantastic, the atmosphere is magic and French People are so fired for combined events!

The Decathlon was won by Andrej Kravchenko with 8553 points and the Heptathlon by Lyudmila Blonska with 6437 points. More to come about results….

I really hope to have my second chance, in no more that one year, to tell ‘merci beaucoup’ to French People with a great rocky decathlon!