Opening Meet!
Saw other ETers (Evan Scott (Davan); Ashley Mort (Mortac); Josh Hurbuleas). Evan and Josh ran some great 55’s – 6.3x I think..
I competed in:
55H
LJ
SP
HJ
Had to do a little bit of a 3 ring circus to manage all these events, as I had all 4 within 1 hour. Also had the 55m in that same hour, so skipped that as I was in the shot put ring when the heat was called. (You might say I chickened out, but doing that many events in a short time period is tough to gear up for!)
My marks:
55H – 8.73 (compared to my 9.05 opener last year, but that was in March – so super pleased with that!)
LJ – 5.81 (compared to a 5.2x opener last year LOL 🙁 !
SP – 11.83 (opened mid 11’s last year)
HJ – 1.72 (opened 1.66 last year I think)
I did these all in 1 hour. HJ, I only took the one jump at 5’8″ and then left to go home. It was my first time since summer going over hurdles. First time since summer throwing Shot. First time since summer doing full approach jumps. I have not HJd in practice since 2000.
All that, and even with being 3 months earlier than last year’s season opener, I had an approximately 300 point improvement over those 4 events – if I’d been doing it in a pent. If I’d been in a pent, the score for 4 events would have been approximately 2400 points..
While not remarkable, it is very solid for this time of year, and even more solid given the setting (hopping between events) and my condition (fighting a cold and a tweaked hip). I think a 3300+ pent is very doable, and a 4600 point hept if I do one. (if I would have added a 2:50 1k today, I would have scored 3150). If I knock out those marks by March, a mid-high 6k dec is in the realm of possibility this year.
We will see.
I’ll be taking next week pretty easy (low impact, lighter weights, nothing faster than ext tempo), then moving into my next cycle of training beginning December 28th.