My idea for a new variation on the hep/decathlon - The Individual Medley

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12 years ago 12/09/2012 4:56pm EST

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Okay, so just musing over things and considering the incredibly strenuous and often too-thinly spread training heptaletes and decathletes to, I've come up with a new idea for a multi-events contest, based on a kind of 'Individual Medley' of events - so the performance quality would be higher but nevertheless showcase ability in all of the fundamentals of track and field. Plus it would be more accessible non-multi-event athletes as requiring four events would be less of aa strenuous training load.

Obviously don't except tis to be taken seriously, but just want to see what LRC thinks of this track and field quadrathlon.

SO my plan consists of, for men and women, 4 events. I tried to pick them so that more natural explosive/endurannce athletes would have something to fit them in each category. Pick one event from each:

1. Sprints/Hurdles (200m, 100/110mH OR 60m, 400mH)

2. Throws (Shot, Javelin, not sure whether to include the discus or hammer)

3. Jumps (Long Jump, High jump, possibly triple for vault but not sure which of the 2 to include)

4. Endurance (800m OR 1500m, 3000 chase, or a 4-6km xc)

So what do you think, what would you change? Trying to keep it to 3 possible event choices per category. Also to make it more competitive, the winner in the 2 events in each category with most competitors would get bonus points.

12 years ago 12/09/2012 5:12pm EST

re: bearwithmehere

So each athlete will perform in four events, but maybe not the same events? It seems a little too convoluted.

But a competition just with these events would be interesting

110H

Shot put

High jump

1500 m

I see a long jump as too much like a sprint.

12 years ago 12/09/2012 5:38pm EST

re: imconfused

I se your point, it does i nretrospect seem pretty confusing. However I do feel the variety in events would allow each athlete to tailor the competition to their strengths, perhaps producing a higher standard in a more narrow skill set.

Ok, so for jumps it will be triple or high jump.

Just wondering, I see your point about the long jump, but curious about the choice specifically of 110mH and shot?

I think what annoys me a bit about some multi events is that you have to spend your time training to be at least fairly competent at a huge number of events with very different skill sets, yet be able to end up simply jogging something like the 1500m at the end which becomes a bit of a joke.

12 years ago 12/09/2012 6:39pm EST

re: bearwithmehere

bearwithmehere wrote:
...just want to see what LRC thinks of this track and field quadrathlon.

I think it would be called a tetrathlon.

12 years ago 12/09/2012 6:46pm EST

re: kibitzear

Okay,but why? We have both duathlon and biathlon. Heptathlon but no septathlon.

12 years ago 12/09/2012 6:53pm EST

re: bearwithmehere

There'd need to be a scoring table established for the xc event, right?

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