{"id":2925,"date":"2012-05-06T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:55:52","slug":"tim-keeps-hitting-personal-records-in-the-throwing-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Tim keeps hitting personal records in the throwing events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more yesterday, in a big meet in Somers, NY. Easily a couple of thousand people from dozens and dozens of schools.<\/p>\n<p>Tim raised his shot put best from 33 feet to 34 feet 5 inches. If you look at the video, you may just see that as he turns away from me (the camera!), he starts to smile.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdf5eIxiwj4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s his new best in the discus. 84 feet 1 inch. His prior best was much lower &#8211; in the 70&#8217;s. I think his technique is pretty good on both these throws. He finished third in this &#8220;flight&#8221; of discus throwers.<\/p>\n<p>But he was nowhere near the best of the day for either event &#8211; plenty of throwers were experienced juniors or seniors. They were throwing at other areas of the meet. Still, a personal best is a personal best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjHE--dT8RQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more yesterday, in a big meet in Somers, NY. Easily a couple of thousand people from dozens and dozens of schools. Tim raised his shot put best from 33 feet to 34 feet 5 inches. If you look at the video, you may just see that as he turns away from me (the camera!), [&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-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}