Tyson Invite- Weight Throw

My series was 21.13m, F,F,F,22.25m, 22.0xm. Here are the reasons that I could use to excuse my poor performance: I have been sick all week; this is my fourth competition and third travel meet in a row and I'm tired; the University of Arkansas meet administration/ track and field program in general doesn't care about the weight throw so 1. the building where the weight is being contested is about a mile from the rest of the events. 2. that building is not heated so it was about 30 degrees inside. 3. the meet administration was too lazy to figure out a start time for the mens weight so they said "to follow womens" which meant 930pm (which meant I was awake for about 13 hours before we started to compete. 4. who ever though it was a good idea to paint the ring to make it slower succeeded. (I used to love the ring here but now it is very slow and grippy. We are actually going to paint over one of our spare rings at home so we can get practice on a crappy circle since SEC's and NCAA's are here.) So, with that said there is NO SUCH THING AS AN EXCUSE. The positive that came out of the meet is that I competed some what decently. I was leading the event with a throw of 21.13m until the fifth round when Jason Lewis, the reigning NCAA indoor champion, got off a better throw of 21.41m. The next throw I responded with a 22.25m throw to take the lead back. I don't know if I would personally commend myself on competing well in that situation. Neither Jason nor I had a good meet and we were not throwing at our bests. We both were having fouls around 73-74 feet but just couldn't keep them in. I was sector fouling them and he was foot fouling them. Since we were having those it was just who got luckier and kept one legal. I have a lot of work to do before the championship meets and will definitely need to come back in better form if I want to be national champion. Shot put today at 3pm CT.

GEAUX TIGERS!