{"id":2736,"date":"2013-05-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:32:03","slug":"not-a-lion-hunter-thts-tim-with-his-javelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"Not a lion hunter; that&#8217;s Tim with his javelin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the Westchester County Championships, where he came 5th, with a best throw of 142&#8242;, the best among county sophomores. He&#8217;s now ranked #5 in the state among high school sophomores and #19 overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big varsity Catholic HS intersectionals are this Sunday, and Tim would dearly love to go over 150&#8242;, which would qualify him for the Eastern States Nationals. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2013\/05\/tim-new-javelin-pr-145-to-win-sophomore-intersectionals-.html\" target=\"_self\">his PR from two weekends ago &#8211; 145&#8217;7&#8243;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meet Sunday is at Icahn Stadium on Randall&#8217;s Island, where Tim has always done well. He likes the turf\/rubberized runway, which is faster then the grass run-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, we don&#8217;t own the javelin (they&#8217;re not cheap), Stepinac does. Here he&#8217;s getting ready for his run-up and throw.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20191025c13d9970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11942\" title=\"P1060985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20191025c13d9970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20191025c13d9970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Westchester County Championships, where he came 5th, with a best throw of 142&#8242;, the best among county sophomores. He&#8217;s now ranked #5 in the state among high school sophomores and #19 overall. The big varsity Catholic HS intersectionals are this Sunday, and Tim would dearly love to go over 150&#8242;, which would qualify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11943,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/11943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}