Back from the dead!

Holy crap, has it really been two years? Ok, I'm back in the game bitches. I'm lighter, faster, stronger. I feel big things this year!

Update

I know I haven't updated this in a while. I have been really busy. There have been a few games and I have been working on a new workout routine, so I'll post the details soon.

Stay tuned.

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

Sun - Training at Birch's

Had a good day at Birch's. Broke 30' with the stone finally with a 31' and change. Managed to get out a few 46' LWD and one at 47' which makes me feel pretty good this long after being out of the game. Hammer is still stuck in the mid 80's. I think I have lost the flex in my back and it's throwing me off.
Dave brought out his Ironmind pulling harness and we ended the day with a few pulls on Birch's Chevy Tahoe. The videos don't show it well but these were on a uphill grade. Much MUCH harder than I thought it would be!!!

Videos from Birch's site:

Birch pulling
Eric Pulling (With Birch's lovely commentary)

I only had flipflops and my throwing shoes with me so I barowed a pair of running shoes from Birch. In the first clip I didn't have them laced tight enough and stepped out of them. I tried to keep going but was losing my traction :( Next two pulls went ok, but man was I tired!

Mon - practice

Got together with Adam today and did sheaf and WOB. Nothing special from me. It was hard and I am sore today. It's going to take a while to get my sheaf mojo back. And WOB, it was just pathetic. Oh well, this is what training days are for and I had a blast shooting the sh*t with Adam.

Sun - Practice

Nothing special today. Got out for a little practice at O-dark thirty in the morning. Did about 2 hours of throwing. Not a bad day, just average. Ground was dry and hard making my hammer spikes just about useless. Still managed some low 60's in the HH and mid 80's in the LH. Not what I was hoping for. Should of been up in the 70's on the HH and 90's in the LH. Oh well, I should be happy I was throwing at all. Was about 30' in the HWD and 45+ in the LWD, so those were not too bad. Monday I will be doing WOB and Sheaf with Adam and maybe Tim.

Trying to step up my training a bit. I have a game on Aug 5th and haven't thrown all year. So my mojo is gone. Plenty strong, but that doesn't seem to help my throwing too much :-(