What it all made me realize though is how strongman is and will always be what does it for me even though it is by far the most demanding and hardest on the body. You just can't get the same feeling of euphoria from complete exhaustion, pain and accomplishment that deadlifting a car or pulling a semi truck gives you by throwing a rock. Last year I decided to get focused and concrete on trying to be great at one thing and not mediocre at a few.
Luckily I have a long time between comps right now and I really missed hanging with some of my best friends so I was able to go up to Ardenwood and throw on Saturday.
I was real rusty and 1 or 2 days of practicing throwing would have done me good (mainly on hammer) but I wanted to take away as little as possible from my strongman training. I was already missing an event day.
The ride up was nothing but laughs stopping along the way to pick up Tony and Lucian. Seeing what Portlandia food Lucian brought with him and Tony scolding his mouth not realizing how hot Lucian keeps his hippie tea and being pissed about it the rest of the day.
Quick recap
Results from Ardenwood Highland games. Braemer 26.9 PR +1'2" Open stone 30'9" PR +9" Light Weight for distace 41'7" PR + 8'7" Light Hammer 66'1" PR+ 4' hit 12' on weight for height. Had more height but wasn't making it go over the bar
All in all a good day, stones felt good and the LWFD pr was super surprising. Pretty much everything after lunch felt awful. I did those dumb Ardenwood stones farmers walk again and all it did was make me angry. They suck for everyone but suck even more if your short and wide like me. I hate hammer, I really really hate hammer. my Heavy hammer sucked so bad but somehow I managed a pr in the light hammer.
WOB was fun and I just wanted to leave by the time the caber came around. Can't lie it made me want to practice a bit and do another one
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