Well, the training must continue!

This past season was full of ups and downs. The start of the season provided some bad happenings in my personal life and this seemed to put a strain on the rest of the season. After starting my season off the right way, I started to tinker with my training and technique. I had a plan and then decided to go away from it. Nearing the trials, I was plagued with lots of bad luck and injuries. Over the last 16 days of preparation, everything started to go wrong. Sickness, muscular injuries, nerve injuries and even none throwing related injuries! After all of this, I can say that I was prepared for the trial about 5-6 weeks after it was over. Obviously this is far too late. I made lots of mistakes in my training this past year and I didn't stay with my plan throughout the rough times. My goal is for this year to be more productive in the areas of therapy, injury prevention and fitness. If 90% is done correctly, I will start living up to my potential as a discus thrower. This is something that I have yet to accomplish. I would love to throw over 70m one day, but more than that, I would like to be a world level finalist.

me and my wife

Me Single-arm Snatching 90 kilos

LET THE BLOGS BEGIN

I created this blog because I wanted to make a website but I don't feel that I have time to manage one. This is much easier and I can post some training journals, statistics and get some video up as well. My goal is to be at minimum an Olympic finalist in 2008 and at minimum by 2012 a medalist. As for now, I am just training and making preparation for the years to come. I will turn 26 in a few days, which is very young for discus throwing. Most Olympic medal caliber throwers are the best around the age of 30 or beyond. I have a long way to go but thinking toward the future should be helpful in my quest.