Decathlon Blog

I went to Olympic Stadium yesterday to see GE Money GP. The weather was perfect and there were some 11 thousand spectators. Maria Mutola was surprisingly powerful and won 800 m (in the picture). Finnish athletes have to really succeed in Gothenburg in order to take medals (except for Pitkämäki, who should have decent chances [...]

The games in Jyväskylä did not go that well for me. I had somehow big troubles in some of the events (mainly shot put, hurdles and discus). I had a one day fever in France a week before so that might have caused some of the problems. Anyway, 400 m was a new PB, which [...]

Sorry about the long pause. I was busy after my trip to France. Trip went pretty well and now everything is ready for tomorrow. They are using my forecasting result service, which is available at www.kymmenottelu.net/kk2006/ enjoy!

The competition started with a surprise as on hurdles the 7th hurdle was some 30 cm too close to the previous one. We all run till the end and then started wondering about the one funny gap where everyone stumbled. As a consequence we had to run the hurdles again an hour after. Well I [...]

Shot put 12,74 with three rounds. Then I had to jog to high jump. I did only 180. Body and mind was not fully recovered from the relays. Long jump started an hour late. I struggled a lot and could jump 651 (-0,3) on my last attempt. However nine points out of 18 for the [...]

Weekend’s Finnish relay championships went really well for us. On Saturday we run 4×100 m on 42,90; relatively good time considering that we only have one real sprinter in our team. The time lacked only 0,3 s from our club record. On Sunday we did even better with the same quartet (Oki Vuonoranta, Matti Vesterinen, [...]

There was some confusion on the actual number of decathlons I have made so I also put up a list of my decathlons. So far I have only listed the 20 last decathlons. I will collect the old ones as well later. Lassi has put up an even better and more informative table of my [...]

The new hurdles coach of Finnish athletics federation (SUL) Anatoly Mihailov held a training for NÅID’s youngsters in Leppävaara yesterday. I was watching it and he had some innovative methods. Of course most of the things are maybe a bit too special for decathletes or heptathletes but for young athletes they are very good although [...]

Miihkinen 15,97 (-0,6), 38,04, 450, 54,88, 5.03,56, 6777 points,
me 16,06 (+1,3), 39,59, 460, 48,26, 4.57,64, 6525,
Erkinheimo 16,12 (+1,3), 38,25, 450, 59,35, 5.31,57, 6515,
Vuorinen 16,53 (+1,3), 36,88, 400, 45,70, 5.01,76,
Kelkka 5364,
Virkkala 5180,
Nurmi 17,30 (-0,6), 32,76, 330, 50,83, 5.03,45, 5107.
What can I say; 200 events in a row meaning 20 decathlons. Quite astounding achievement. I am [...]

Miihkinen 15,97 (-0,6), 38,04, 4817 points,
Erkinheimo 16,12 (+1,3), 38,25, 4635,
me 16,06 (+1,3), 39,59, 4599,
Vuorinen 16,53 (+1,3), 36,88, 4574,
Nurmi 17,30 (-0,6), 32,76, 3535.
Two season best in two events. In discus we had unfavorable tail-wind. All the classes jump at the same time so it will take a while before I will get to do pole [...]