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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: October 23, 2016, 01:34:54 pm »Another debacle of a comp this week. We had some ridiculous weather in Melbourne (50km/h+ winds, heavy rain, 10deg C) and I was thinking they might cancel it. I went along anyway with plans to do TJ, shot, HJ and 200. Had shot put first and was raining pretty heavily, ended up throwing in my wet weather gear. Terrible throwing obviously, wet shot put, freezing cold, windy and restricted range of motion led to a measly 8.27m I think. Got to the 200 and we had a bit of a sunny break. But of course, the organisers had once again failed to test the timing system and it accordingly fucked up right before the first heat. After stuffing around for about 10-20 mins, they sent everyone off for a further 20min break while they restarted the whole thing. The first heat guys were furious as you could imagine, as well as everyone else. It's incredibly annoying to start your warmup for an event on the assumption it'll run roughly to time, but then end up warming up for 1.5hrs+ waiting for your late event. Then, just to top it off, the rain really rolled in hard and they decided that they would shut it down the whole day. So the tiny window they had to at least let the top guys get a time, they botched by not getting the timing working, and no-one ran, lol.
The other element that made this even more farcical is that this round was one of three 'zone vs zone' rounds, where the AthsVic admin thought it'd be a great idea to jam two zones into one venue. Each zone is about 8-10 clubs and the day goes for 2x as long to accommodate all the entries. For instance, I was in heat 12 of 29 for the 200. You can imagine the joy of trying to get out of a tiny carpark onto a main road with literally everyone trying to leave at the same time! Lol. I know I whinge a bit about the amateur comp but it really is shockingly incompetent. There's just no alternatives if you want to do T&F in my state unfortunately.
damn sounds like an awful day. like, literally nothing good happened. eek :/
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Weighted jumps today were pretty awful, maybe around 31-32''. I've been getting at least 1x weighted jumps session a week but maybe I'm getting a bit fatigued....haven't really improved vertically in awhile




