Decathlon Blog

Maken ottelut was successful in a sense that Pekka cleared easily the minimum for the Finnish championships (Kalevan Kisat) set to 6100 points. As his coach I was really pleased to see confidence in his performances and he is again close to his PB from year 2000 6324 points. On my part warm up for [...]

Maken ottelut is the last competition for me before the Finnish championships that are held next week. The day started with cold rain but luckily rain stopped and the weather was rather nice unlike what was forecasted. Electrical timing system was (luckily) nonoperational so after 40 minutes of delay we got to run on the [...]

French comedian Rémi is back and has made an excellent clip on decathlon. See nqtv and nimportequi.com for more clips and the story. I recommend especially the clips in the impostures section.
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I trialled a new warm-up technique, meaning I took six hurdles 40 minutes before the start. The six hurdles felt rather good but I still felt tired in the competition so maybe the 40 minutes was not enough to recover or six hurdles was too many. Anyways, I stumbled really badly on the first hurdle, [...]

Sun shone in Pännäinen today but the wind was brutal for us. I had a good run taking into account the strong head wind. Long jump was day’s best performance for me. Shot put was powerless and I am still searching the right high jump feeling / technique. In 400m we had no wind in [...]

I started with a really lousy 110m hurdles; 16,81 (+1,4). Actually the time is surprisingly good compared to this year’s previous runs as this time I really struggled with each hurdle. After the hurdles I had two events exactly in parallel. Actually one could consider them as three events as I first threw three times [...]

Tight schedule as always in the area championships; I had three events in a row without any pause in between. First was long jump, in which running felt rather good but otherwise nothing happened on the board; as a consequence, I did my best with last - 640 (-0,0) from behind the board. In shot [...]

Weather was not that favourable on Sunday as it was on Saturday. We ended up fifth in 4×400m with time 3.19,33, which is some two seconds worse than last year. I run the second leg as I did last year as well. My time was one second worse, namely 50,5s. My run felt pretty good [...]

I did not run today so I just watched how the others performed. Our team did not finish, but I believe they would have ended up ninth. HKV won men’s 4×100m and VU was second. Our team got one medall, which was silver from Women U18 4×100m (in the picture). I will run tomorrow in [...]