The local newspaper did a feature story about me in Saturday’s sports section, complete with a color photograph. So I’ve been basking in my 15 minutes of fame and getting lots of kudos from my friends and aquaintances.
Other than a bike ride and some stretching midweek, yesterday was my first workout since the competition. Everything is still a little sore…both shoulders, my elbow and my calves. But I managed to get in a decent chest workout and I ran for 30 minutes. I’ll probably do a back workout and some more cardio today.
I’m not quite sure why my upper body got so sore, but since it’s both shoulders, it must be pole-vault related. My lower body didn’t take near the overall beating I gave it in Santa Barbara, but once again the calves took the most abuse. They were both cramping during the high jump, and are still sore a week later. It seems apparent that even an ample amount of training at 90% effort isn’t enough to get prepared for the demands of going full-out in competition.
I’ll be posting my video of the hep championship soon. There’s not anything too spectacular in it, but the pole vault footage was fun to see. Practice for the high school team starts next week, so that will be where most of my time will be focused. I think I may be done competing until at least this summer, but we’ll have to wait and see. I haven’t decided what my next goal will be.
