To see a complete list of results, click here.
The good news: Joe's body held together and he was able to finish the entire decathlon without injury!
The results:
110 Hurdles: 15.12 s 835 points
Discus: 43.91 or 144'1" 744 points
Pole Vault: 4.80 or 15'9" 849 points
Javelin: 57.64 or 189'1" 702 points
1500 meters: 5:19 452 points
Total after Day 2: 7356
The bummer news: Joe will have to do another decathlon to get a qualifier for the Trials. We thought that the B standard, 7600 points, would be good enough for the Trials...but when we looked at the status of entries last night, we saw that it would take a significantly higher score..like at least 7750. You may have noticed that the 1500 was pretty slow...or at least that the point total was low for that event, and you'd be right. Joe is quite capable of running 4:40 or below in the 1500...but going into that event, we had already calculated that it would be virtually impossible for him to get a high enough score (7750) to qualify for the Trials....so he basically just jogged the 1500 to finish the meet (I wish I could "jog" a mile in 5 minutes!)
So now the task is to remain healthy and to find another meet! Joe definitely got a picture of what he still needs to work on, and what things are coming along. I have a bunch of photos to download and look at...hopefully I'll post some of those soon.
We'll keep you posted!
Snapshot January 2017
6 years ago
1 comment:
Hey, we hate to hear that it didn't go as well as expected. But, then again, most of the great things in life aren't revealed until the last minute (i.e. our beautiful kids!). So, we will keep cheering from here!
Kim
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