Falling Flat in Finland

Published by Cyrus Hostetler on July 14, 2014

Yet another competition today marks the third in the last five days. After some exhausting travel over the last two days I can actually say I am not too surprise that I was a little flat today on the runway. I was in 5th most of the competition with a best of 75.70m until the last round where I was passed yet again.

Even after all the travel I was feeling pretty good. I think jetlag is kind of a mental thing and not taking care of yourself when traveling multiple time zones. I crossed ten time zones to Finland and in doing so I stayed hydrated, slept when it was nighttime and was awake in the day.

But even though I felt good I was definitely losing some explosiveness in my throws.

In round one multiple guys hit almost 83m so I was excited that this would be a great competition. The stadium wasn’t huge but the fans seemed very excited and well aware of the events and who was important to watch.

I knew I had what it takes to compete with these guys. Even though they have personal bests of over 85m I know they don’t throw it every day. So who was to say that today couldn’t be my day?