Competing at University Nebraska this weekend was a dream come true, I always wanted to set foot in that facility but I never made the cut when I was in Junior College. 2 years later my dream finally came true.
My first event of the day was the 60m dash preliminaries, 7.13sec was fast enough to secure me a spot in the finals. The finals was ran back to back with the preliminaries so as soon as I was done with the prelims, I had to line up for the finals. Being the underdog entering the finals I know I had to run anything better than 7.13sec to finish in the top 3. However I ran a better time in the finals and finished 3rd overall with a time of 7.05sec.
The Pole Vault was my highlight of the day. I only took four warm up vaults two from five lefts running from 71' to work on technique and two full approach vaults running from 100' to get a feel for the runway and to see how consistent my run was. Warm ups went well, after four jumps I was ready to for the competition to start. With 30 vaulters registered I knew it was going to be a long wait for before I got a chance to enter the competition. Waiting for two hours I finally got a chance to take my first vault at my opening height 4.50m I cleared on my first attempt, made 4.65m on my second attempt and cleared 4.80m and 4.95m on my first attempt, 4.95m is a new indoor personal best for me and also good enough to win the vault. I had one solid jump at 5.10m but I didn't make it.
Nonetheless there's a lot of room for improvement for the up coming meets, me and my coach will sit down and watch the videos to make some adjustments.
There's a youtube link for the Pole Vault
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVwt8F0SdBM
