This weekend was much anticipated because it was a return to the place where I earned my first real collegiate win last season. Friday we left at 8am for a bus ride that ended around 3pm at the track at the University of Virginia. The hammer went extremely well for me. I felt really good warming up despite the long bus ride and not having thrown since monmouth 2 weeks ago. I opened up nicely with a 49m effort. Then I PRed 3 times with 2 throws over 52m, my best being 52.43m. Just missed qualifying for IC4As by 7cm but after seeing the video I'm confident I'll improve if I can fix some problems, mainly my release.
Then Saturday came.
I was feeling a little sick with a bit of a fever(I think) and a sore throat, but that wasn't the problem this weekend in the javelin. Despite being slow in my approach, my throw was smooth and the most technically sound it has been all season. The only thing missing was some pop at the end. My coach and I were both stumped when we looked at the video together afterwards, but we came up with a solution based on what has worked for me in the past. Let's just say I'm gonna become very good friend with medicine balls and only touch a javelin on weekends. Hopefully this will give me some of the explosiveness back and keep my body more rested and ready to throw. In high school I PRed when I practiced less or not at all which sounds lazy but I really think only throwing at meets helps me focus more on the importance of every throw at the meet.
So a good weekend all in all. A nice PR in the hammer extending my St. Francis school record for 5th place. A slight SB in the javelin, 58.71m good for 3rd place, and some encouragement from the decent technique. Big congrats goes out to Brian Fill of rival NEC school Monmouth who won the competition with a huge PR of 67.88m.
