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I always like to do a pre-meet photo because I feel like if I have done my job it will be near the best shape I have been in for awhile. I could get hit by a car and never train again so it's a good "progress report". I took some in Sydney but every one of them was blurred by a flash so I took this one this morning without it.
SO, I'm on week 56 of this year's training so far. This ends after nationals in Cleveland on 7/29. I turn 58 next Friday and some days I feel it much more than others. Thus far this year I have lifted 3,815,966 lbs. and done 2,358 weighted bar exercises. But the only question that matters is CAN I POLE VAULT?!
Today's song is Van Halen's, "Right Now" because that is the abruptness of a big meet performance. All of the planning and training and visualizing for that day is suddenly and emphatically RIGHT NOW!! There are no second chances; it's NOW!!
If you followed by blog leading up to Sydney you now that a vaulter's biggest fear is the "no height" (nh). Kirk and I emailed back and forth a few times last night and he said what all vaulters say before big meets, "I'm second guessing everything I'm doing and thinking. I just want to make a bar and then have some fun." An "nh" means you did not clear your opening height on your three allotted attempts. Our biggest fear. I have done it once. Let's not start on Monday. Like me, Kirk has won a world championship yet we still have the same fear; nh. After that first bar it's a party.
That's it for today. Thanks for being here. Getting nervous and loving it. Bubba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkxB6PqQsoY
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