I'm proposing Sunday, June 7th as a "Try the Heavy Athletics" day. This is the Sunday after the Modesto Highland Games.

This is tentative, right now. We have most of the gear for both men and women, though we don't have any of the Masters womens weights. We only lack a 22 pound hammer and a 56 pound weight for the Open Men. However, we do have a 42'er, which is the Masters weight, and trust me, 42 pounds is heavy enough. We have a 16 pound hammer for the men, and a 12 pound hammer for the women; those are the light hammer weights. We have a newbie caber...a dinky little caber and we also have a Pretty Darned Big caber for the Muscle Men in the crowd. With luck I'll have an intermediate caber by June 7th.

If any of you Manly Men and Womanly Women are thinking about learning more about this stuff, get back to me in this thread.

I will be asking a number of the local athletes who didn't cop invitations to the Modesto Games to come out, so there will be lots of expertise around. You can learn, and put up some marks to stick in your pocket and use as comparison when you throw in your first Games. Or, if you never want to throw in a Games and just want to try the implements, pretty much the Real Deal, and actually get your results measured, here's a place to do it.

OK, let me know...