Blogs : Hugh Murphy

Nationals! Rah Rah Rah!

Well anyway, I scraped into Nationals by the skin of my teeth. It’s pretty exciting…not as exciting as that dream I had in which Richard Gere and Dr. Phil are eaten by a pack of vicious polar bears…but still exciting.

My former teammates at Brown, Paul Rosiak (javelin) and Anna Willard (Steeplechase) qualified for NCAA’s, as did a dozen of my Kansas Jayhawk compadres. So even if I don’t throw well I can still count on a big group of friends to cheer me up/laugh at me.

Javelinistically speaking, I’ve spent the past week polishing my run-up, and I think it’s looking much better. I have inadvertently experimented with a highly specialized running style this Spring – it is a style that has only been mastered by myself and injured water buffalo calves as they flee during a lion attack. It can most accurately be described as “graceful” or “majestic” (you’re choice, but I like majestic). Picture a man with two broken arms who has fallen overboard and must pump his legs furiously just to keep his head above the roiling ocean waters.

I’ll leave you with that image.
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welcome

9:06 PM, May 31, 2007 .. Posted by javthrower11

Welcome to the elite group of guys who weren't good enough to play baseball or football in High School...but were welcomed with open arms to Track...and have now made it...

lets go big...

You're absolutely right...

10:00 PM, June 2, 2007 .. Posted by hmurphy

I really didn't know that there were more than 25 male javelin throwers in North America until I saw the heat sheet for Nationals. Alas...we'll make the baseball team someday.