Multi Events Competition

Today I competed in my first ever multi events competition. The format was that you had to compete in at least 5 of the 6 events, and your top 5 points were taken for your total. The events us guys had to do was 110m Hurdles, Long Jump, Shot Put, Pole Vault, Javelin and 1km race. We began at 10am as we had to be done by 4pm as their was a soccer game on today as well. It was good to have Sarah Cowley who is a New Zealand Olympian Heptahlete and Angus Ross who is her strength and conditioning coach, come down to support us and offer advice on each event. The first event up for us guys were the 110m Hurdles, as this was my major strength i was hoping for a fast time and a good score to be able to try and hold on for the overall win at the end of the day. To my surprise as I had not hurdled in nearly a month, I was able to to get out well and end up winning with a hand time of 15.8secs which gave me a points score of 755. Next we were off to the Long Jump, now because this is a multi event you only get 3 jumps, I manged to jump 5.95m in my last jump to get 2nd in the long and score 576 points. Shot put was the next event to go and again it is the same as long jump meaning you only have 3 throws, the first throw I threw 8m as a safety throw to get on the board. The 2nd throw however was much better as I was able to get the 7.26kg shot out to 10.04m, the final throw was again longer but this time I was unable to stay in the circle, instead falling out of the front. The next event on the agenda was the pole vault, after a quick lecture for an ex New Zealand champion Paul Gibbons, we were off attempting it ourselves. After struggling to begin with I began to get into a rhythm eventually getting up over 2m and only just missing 2.20m which is not to bad. After everyone had finished we headed over to javelin, when i soon discovered my Achilles heel. Lets just say that my 34.1m throw was not good and needs a lot of work. The final event was finally upon us and after planning on just jogging through this 1km something changed at the start line. As the gun went off I took to the front at a steady pace expecting the others to come with me but after 200m i noticed that if anything i was pulling away from them, I battled through the rest of the race by myself finishing with a time of 2min and 52seconds and in doing so wining by around 70m. This gave me a total score of 2916 and the overall win by 124 points.