Aug 5th and Aug 11th Games.

Well, I figured I would just lump my two game reports together. I’ll start with the Weight city games that John Collins’ family put on in Clarksburg. We had a semi humid day, but it was too crazy hot like it had been all week. What a great day of throwing. We decided to do a team event pairing up an A thrower with a master or B class thrower. The A’s were a shootout between John Collins, Beau Fay, and Mike Dickens. They had some incredible throws. Beau had a couple LWD throws over 71’ I was the old guy teamed with John Collins and all I could say I did was not hurt his scores ;-) John came in 1^st and I came in 7^th overall, but the points were all pretty close between us mere mortals. As a team we were the points leaders. So that was cool. I actually had a great day considering it was my first game coming off a really bad back injury. I had some really good numbers and was pretty solid across the board. That Frank Henry was doing a good job of staying out in front of me. Frank always kills me on the stone and LWD but I thought I could catch him on a couple things. He edged me out of both hammers and the caber, beating me by something like a foot. One day Frank!

So now on to the second game on the following weekend. This one was the Glenn Meade Highland games in Corry, Pa. I had no idea how far away this place was from me. It was about an 8 hour drive up. Corry is right next to Lake Erie. It’s nice country up there but man an 8 hour drive can tweak your back. I was lucky to find a bed and breakfast for both Friday night and Saturday night so at least I didn’t have to drive straight through. We had a great day to throw. It was sunny, about 80 degrees, and no humidity! The field was soft and muddy from heavy rains the last couple of days though. On the WOB both the 42 and the 56 were vanishing into the mud when they landed. I had a pretty good day. Norman Spayd was chasing me most of the day and he killed me in the stone. I’m not a track guy so these shot putters usually clean me up in the stone. My stone sucks. I’m lucky to break 30’ and in this game my stone luck was failing. I did something like 29’ and Norm was in the high 30’s. He came close to catching me on the LWD too lobbing out a 45+ throw to my 46+, a 5’ PR for him. My throws ended up 29+ stone, 32+ HWD, 46+LWD, 83’ LH, 22’ muddy sheaf, 13’ WOB (Rich and I were both tag’n 14’), a 12:00 and a 12:10 caber turn. I took 1^st in the masters although I’m not sure how the point spread looked. Beau took 1^st in the Ams and if I am not mistaken he had a 74+ LWD! Despite the drive I had a great time! I know the Weight city scores are up on NASGA, I’m not sure about Glenn Meade though.

Wed - Pre game workout.

Have a game on Sunday so today will be my last workout until the game. Probably lifted more than I should of but I was feeling good.

• 15 warm up on the Stairmaster
• Back Extensions - 4x20x410
• Cable crunches - 1x50x210 2x80x210 1x100x210
• Wide cable press - 1x8x280 1x8x300 1x8x320 1x8x330
• Wide fly - 1x8x220 2x8x240 1x8x250
• Preacher curl w/EZ-bar - 1x8x80 1x8x90 1x8x100 1x8x120
• Rope push downs - 1x8x180 1x8x200 1x8x220 1x8x240