SHOT AND DISC
WELL--- It's update time. I had a meet in Whapeton, ND on Saturday. It was rather sad. I threw horribly, i was looking to get at least 49 feet. Turned out that my glides were just plain BAD. There is typically never much for competition at this meet, and all i needed to win was to beat a low 45 foot throw, I think it was about 45'5-6''. So, in my second throw of finals, i tossed out a 46'9.5'' power throw, and i ended up winning with that. Bacon was a close second with 46'4. And Cordes was at his lifting comp, so he was not available to throw, but Alex ended up with a 1,2 finish in the shot. Conference is this Saturday, and i'll have to hit around 50 just to place top 2 or three i think, so, i'll have to pick it back up and figure out how to get my glide down for that meet.
well, crap. I had conference on Sat. Threw really bad. didn't expect much though, I'd had a bad week in practice anyways. Minor minor flaw in the technique. Just yesterday, Monday, got the flaw fixed a little bit. Still it's not good, but way better. Tossed out some 47's, and 48's and one around a high 48 to a 49. So now i'm kinda happy again. Looking forward to a big improvement at Saturday's meet at St. John's. Then, next Tuesday, one week from today, as i'm writing this on Tuesday, is an outdoor meet first of the year, so I get to throw DISCUS!!! i like discus discus is my friend. now i'm happy. look back for details.
4-10-00
hmmmmm, had the meet at St. John's Saturday, again, threw like crap not at all happy with my performance. But i got third, and cordes got second, and bacon got 4th... so we got a 2,3,4 finish, so i geuss that's ok. But hey, tomorrow, Brainard/wilmar tri meet, home, outside, DISCUS... what more do i need to say????? (i'm rather excited)
ummmmm basically the meet got cancelled on Tues. so now i'm not all too happy damnit oh well
4-26-00
Well........ shot was not so good..... 46'6.5''. cordes beat me by an inch. me him and bacon went 3,4,5 again in this meet. i had fourth of course then. Disc went OK. i was tossin really fricken far in warm ups, but simply put, i took too many warm ups. i ended up with only 142, so i was a little disappointed, but i have more meets to come, and i know i can get 150 easily enough, so i'll just have to wait. we have a meet on sat. but i'm injured a bit right now.... so that will really suck some major ass. my back's been botherin me a bunch, but, i think i'll still be able to get it out there... lack of sleep will be the biggest issue, i'm working the night before and the bus will leave at 6:30 am..... but we'll just have to see how it goes.
4-28-00
meet is tomorrow... i slept last night for 11 hours, i'll be getting, at MOST, 3.5-4 hours tonight.... so that might be a little problem, but i'll try to sleep on the bus some. This week was a pretty good one in practice... yesterday was a lifting day and it rained, but on wed., the last throwing day, i had out of 12 or so, about 8 of my throws going over 150. so again, i'm thinkin i should be able to get it out there in shot, 1 of about 8 throws hit 49 almost 50, one more was a solid 49. the rest were just all around 47-48, but still, that's all higher than what i've had in meets so far, so maybe i'm just an underpreformer at meets... i dunno. i'll just have to give it hell on saturday, and see what happens with it.
5-18-00
You are now visiting the page of a conference champion, although I still threw like shit. Shot went dec as well, not good, but dec. I should have been over 50, even threw one over 50 in finals warmups, but ended up at 47 sumthin, in disc, I got first, after throwing over 160 in warmups, and a shitload of throws over 155, I ended up winning on my first nice easy make-sure-you-mark throw, at 147 sumthin....... damnit this crap can get screwy, eh? I know if your a thrower, you know what I'm talkin about.
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