Paolo Mottadelli (MOZ)

With a great delay, pushed by the recent Olympic spirit, here is the annouce of my 4th Italian Decathlon Title.

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!

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Well, firts of all: I don’t know if everybody think that it is a good idea; it is definitely to me.

Last Saturday I made a 1500 meters competition… yes, with the real 1500 meters runners, not among other decathletes!

In my opinion it was such a training experience and I’m sure I’ll repeat it; I run in 4′48”53, that is 79 cents more then my PB (I’m not a good 1500 runner.. ).

The best feeling is the way I can approach the distance without the physical and mental stress of a Decathlon ending race. Yes, it is simpler to run in this way, but the positive effect is that next time I’ll know that 1500 meters are not such a monster, as decathletes (especially in Italy) often think.

I can imagine that someone might think that I’m writing obvious things, but I would like to report my personal experience about it, and say that I’m definitely going on with this approach, hoping to defeat the monster and start running 1500 as a distance

…to be continued …

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