{"id":2941,"date":"2012-04-12T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:52:16","slug":"tim-gets-his-first-1st-place-in-the-discus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"Tim gets his first 1st place in the discus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the Mt. Vernon Development Meet (freshman and sophomores only) and against big schools, including Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Port Chester, and Iona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim&#8217;s second throw (they each get three) was 103 feet 6 inches. They were using a lighter discus then he has been using, since it was an all-freshman event. The second place throw was 94 feet, so Tim won by a lot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a funny conversation about a half hour after Tim&#8217;s event. Three Iona boys from that event were walking past Brigid and I, when an Iona pole vaulter came up to them and here&#8217;s the conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pole vaulter: &#8220;Did you win&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discus guy: &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poll vaulter: &#8220;Well who won?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discus guy: &#8220;Some kid from Stepinac.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me: &#8220;Hey, he was pretty good, wasn&#8217;t he?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discus guy: &#8220;Yes he was.&#8221; (No way he knew I was Tim&#8217;s Dad).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim also ran in a relay &#8211; 4 x 200. He&#8217;d never run a 200 before. Stepinac finished 2nd out of six in the relay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we got home Tim and I went to the gym. He benched with dumbbells &#8211; worked up to 4 reps at 90 lbs. &#8211; and squatted 275.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here he is in his flourescent sneakers after the meet &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e20163040f2d87970d-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12024\" title=\"IMG_8027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e20163040f2d87970d-320wi.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e20163040f2d87970d-320wi-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next meet is Saturday, in Ossining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Mt. Vernon Development Meet (freshman and sophomores only) and against big schools, including Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Port Chester, and Iona. Tim&#8217;s second throw (they each get three) was 103 feet 6 inches. They were using a lighter discus then he has been using, since it was an all-freshman event. The second place [&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-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","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=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}