Back at last

It’s been way too long since my last post, but I’ve been traveling a lot and working way too hard to be able to do much of anything. My training has suffered too.

It looks like I may only have two more meets this season and I’m not very hopeful of any great performances at those. The first of the meets comes about 5 days after I have to take a 2-week trip so I will be out of shape for that one, and my technique will have suffered too. The second meet comes about 3 weeks later, so maybe my technique will be a little better by then. Compounding it all, it appears that the youth soccer league is getting ready to gear up again, so my practice area is going to be tough to use.

All in all though, it’s been a pretty good season to-date. I’ve had 2 discus PRs this season, for a total improvement of almost 4 feet over last season’s PR. I wanted more, but I’ll take it. I’m not completely giving up on more gains this season though. It’s just going to take the right throw in the right conditions and you can’t always count on that happening.

I had a pretty interesting training session yesterday. I went out to throw in the morning and was pretty frustrated by how far the discus was going. A week off due to my latest business trip was really showing in my distances, and I was just trying to recapture the proper feel of things when the field maintenance crew chased me off to do some mowing and fertilizing. Since I hadn’t gotten my fill I decided to return later in the day. I was starting to get a little stiff from the morning’s efforts so I decided to only throw the 1kg discus, and just work on form. Well, within about a dozen throws I had launched several really long ones, and the furthest measured out to just over 52 meters, or 173 feet and some change. THAT felt good. Now, if I could only figure out how to do that with the 1.5k implement.