Masters Worlds review

[o1d_dude]

I didn't realize the sheaf was being contested. BTW, your tossing form in the video looked to be spot on.

What type of scoring did they use to compute the aggregate? I'm thinking it was something other than the simple 1 point for first, etc. based on the event scores I saw posted on Scottishmasters.org.

[Alan H]

I don't actually know... I thought I had beaten Teg Leger and Bill Gray, but turns out I was half a point behind Ted. The way I add it up, the usual way, I had 78 points. Now that I add it up again, looks like Ted had 78 points. So in fact we tied for 10th. Alford Duncan actually got 76 points instead of the 77 they credit him with.

This is so irrelevant to anybody but me. "Tied for 10th place" ... or "11th place"
Is it even worth an e-mail?

[Alan H]

Actually, in the light hammer results, there's a score for an athlete who wasn't even there....Ken Green. If you drop that score, then everybody below that score moves up. That actually drops a point out of my score, but Teds throw was bigger than the non-attending Ken Green. If that's the case then in fact I DID beat Ted and actually DID finish an honest 10th.

Even if there is some exotic formula going on to calculate results, just the readjustment of the hammer score moves me up a whole point...but I was behind Ted by half a point, so that moves me half a point ahead of Ted.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.... yeah, OK....this discrepancy is worth an e-mail.

[o1d_dude]

Worth the email.

Victory is forever.

[Alan H]

Confirmed by John Allen and Kevin Rogers....tied with Ted for 10th. I'll have to take a marker pen to my certificate and print out the new results sheet for my notebook! Sheesh.

[Alan H]

Now to conquer the post-Worlds dumps...as in "I got my hindquarters kicked...no... stomped, mutilated and pummeled in every event, all day long. Why did I bother to go?"

I know the fallacy of that logic, and my better sense will re-emerge after another day or two, but I'm in the middle of the crash. Figure, I get to have a day or two of it, then back on the horse.

Though June will be a more laid-back month for training, because of some family trips and stuff. All things considered, in terms of recovery and stuff, that's probably a good thing.

[David Thorpe]

Do not disrespect your worthy efforts, Alan. Do your best and be proud of it. Most of all, enjoy it.
All I can do is to enjoy the photos and stories, which I assure you, I do, most emphatically!

[creagdhubh]

Do not disrespect your worthy efforts, Alan. Do your best and be proud of it. Most of all, enjoy it.
All I can do is to enjoy the photos and stories, which I assure you, I do, most emphatically!

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[Alan H]

Ah, but what if you prepare and prepare and prepare and prepare....and work out and lift and throw and pay for coaching and. and. and. for months on end you prepare as best you possibly know how... and then go and don't do your best?

That's hard to swallow. Well, for me it is.

But it is, what it is. What went down, went down. Like I said, I'm kind of blue this week, I will bust out of it in a day or two. This stomach virus has not helped my attitude. Many of the guys I throw with locally do not practice at all, or perhaps about 1/3rd as much as I do. It's not going to hurt me to ease off for a month, in fact it will probably do my muscles and joints some good. I'll going to try to drop ten pounds, while I'm at it....and that can't hurt either.

'nuff said.

I throw some O stone tonight and try the spinning wob with the 42 pounder for a bit and call it good for the weekend. I'm going for a hike on Sunday, and that will be all to the good. On saturday I buy a new sleeping bag. Shopping therapy!

[GoodGirlGonePlaid]

Ah, but what if you prepare and prepare and prepare and prepare....and work out and lift and throw and pay for coaching and. and. and. for months on end you prepare as best you possibly know how... and then go and don't do your best?

That's hard to swallow. Well, for me it is.

But it is, what it is. What went down, went down. Like I said, I'm kind of blue this week, I will bust out of it in a day or two. This stomach virus has not helped my attitude. Many of the guys I throw with locally do not practice at all, or perhaps about 1/3rd as much as I do. It's not going to hurt me to ease off for a month, in fact it will probably do my muscles and joints some good. I'll going to try to drop ten pounds, while I'm at it....and that can't hurt either.

'nuff said.

I throw some O stone tonight and try the spinning wob with the 42 pounder for a bit and call it good for the weekend. I'm going for a hike on Sunday, and that will be all to the good. On saturday I buy a new sleeping bag. Shopping therapy!

Now to conquer the post-Worlds dumps...as in "I got my hindquarters kicked...no... stomped, mutilated and pummeled in every event, all day long. Why did I bother to go?"

I know the fallacy of that logic, and my better sense will re-emerge after another day or two, but I'm in the middle of the crash. Figure, I get to have a day or two of it, then back on the horse.

Though June will be a more laid-back month for training, because of some family trips and stuff. All things considered, in terms of recovery and stuff, that's probably a good thing.

"I got my hindquarters kicked...no... stomped, mutilated and pummeled in every event, all day long."

me too, but that's usual.
I get the post games blues too.
So I just bought some chandelier earrings off of etsy.com. It helped.