Alan H's 2012 in season log

[Alan H]

Threatening 90 in hammer?
Everything over 50 in lwfd?

Sounds like you've reached much higher ground. We'll all get a kink in our necks at Dixon watching you way up there. I'll have to remember to bring my telescope.

Way to go!

Yeah, well I've threatened 90 in the 16 hammer before at practice, and it's never happened on Game Day. That 87-something PR from Monterey 2010 is getting kind of long in the tooth. ditto for the 70-and-change heavy hammer toss from the same Games. I fouled a 71 footer at Monterey and have gone 69+ twice this season, so it's in the tank.....just hasn't happened, yet.

Now the 50+ LWFD... that is starting to feel like the real deal, now. It's interesting. I've been able to throw 50+ in practice since late last season. I just never have done it in a Games until Pleasanton. Last year I'd throw 48-50 in practice a lot and then go throw 44 on Game Day. GAAAA. Drove me nuts. Woodland, this year was a p*ss*r... I SO had 50 feet in practice and then hosed up two of the LWFD throws, and had to settle for 49' 9". I threw 49' 9" TWICE this season. I went 49' 9" at Ardenwood in 2011. sheesh. If I can go over 50 at both Dixon and Ventura, then I declare the 50 foot glass ceiling officially broken. It would be VERY nice to break my 51' 4" PR before the end of the season. I could do it, I think I threw about 3-4 over that mark in practice last night, but I'll just be happy going over 50 in the last two Games of the season.

Once Dixon is over, I get in three solid workouts with lots of sheaf time. I'll be gunning for 26 at Ventura.

All in all, this has been a good season. I'm still getting better. The increase in strength/ability versus decline-due-to-age-curve has not flattened out, yet. I got a PR in sheaf at Queen Mary and then matched it at Bakersfield. I got a PR in open stone at Santa Cruz....a PR (barely) in HWFD at Pleasanton...seriously ramped up my caber throwing and got myself a nifty trophy for it at Pleasanton, and went over 50 feet in LWFD again. I went to the MWC and got slaughtered, but I picked and controlled and got three decent pulls on an honest-to-goodness A class caber. I'm stuck at 13 in Masters WOB, but for some reason can now clear 11 feet with the 56 pounder, which is way better than I've ever done before.