http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog Decathlon Blog by Matti Vesterinen Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:21:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now I have run all the official distances from 100 meters to marathon this summer, excluding hurdles and steeples. I still have two competitions left, so I can still improve my times on 400 m and 800 m. Today I run 5000 and 400 meters in Veikkola. I was not ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=683 The summer as a heptathlete coach is finally over. The first two and a half months, from April onwards, went better than what I could have expected. Then knee started hurting and the rest of the summer I was mostly hoping that the summer would end. There is so much ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=681 Yesterday I run 10 000 m on 39.22,35 in Tampere. Aim was to run below 40 minutes; so the trip was a success. Nevertheless, it was not that easy to keep up the pace after the first five kilometres. This was the longest distance I have run after the marathon ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=678 Yesterday, my club Esbo IF once again won the local qualification for the SFI-seriefinal by a clear margin to the second; 147 points against 119 by IF Sibbo-Vargarna. My task was to do high jump, 800 m and in the Swedish relay 400 m. This was the first time I ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=675 Enjoyed competing today. Already the fact that it did not rain as was forecasted made me feel good after spending yesterday evening coaching under an umbrella. I had two targets for this evening: 100 m under 12 s and new PB on 1500 m. I met both the targets ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=672 I was supposed to run my first 400 meters this year yesterday but instead got my career's first disqualification. I moved in the starting blocks before the starting shot, which caused the disqualification. Should have had a bit more patience. Funny that it happened on 400 meters since I rarely ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=670 Arrived to Kajaani on Friday just in time to see the last two events of the decathlon. My teammate Antti Miihkinen put up an awesome sprint in the 1500 meters and took bronze. A well deserved medal for him! Heptathlon started on Saturday. My athlete lost the game on the most ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=665 Different year, different athlete but Hannu, the physiotherapist, still remains the same. Last year I got treatments to my right achilles tendon before the Kalevan Kisat. Well, we got the pain to go away from the right achilles, but the left one got hurt in the high jump during the ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=662 Went to Turku yesterday to follow my athlete's last competition before Kalevan Kisat (Finnish championships), which will be held next weekend. I thought, why go that far just to watch one run. So, I myself run the 800 meters. Unluckily there were two heats and I was in the worse ... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=660 Had a quick trip to the European Championships in Barcelona. Barely long enough to follow the decathlon from start to finish. What a great competition it turned out to be. Naturally, we had our little competition as well in the night time... http://www.mattivesterinen.com/blog/?p=657