Forbidden manual posted: All about ultraweight pentathlon
George Mathews and Ivars Ikstrums love the ultraweight pentathlon. For some age groups, this means throwing a concrete cylinder weighing 300 pounds. Over the past 25 years, this event (whose roots are in the Scottish Highland Games) has grown in popularity and acceptance. Now it has its own USATF masters national championships. But scoring, specs and officiating tips are hard to come by, so George and Ivars wrote a manual on the event, which tells you everything except how to recover from back strain. Officially, this monograph doesn’t exist. But my masters moles have provided a copy. (See it here.) Eventually, it’ll be posted on the USATF Officials Web site. For now, here’s a sneak taste of forbidden fruit.
These critters create quite a divot. Fortunately, the monograph explains how to measure a throw, given any divot shape or circumstance.
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Some folks with old Windows computers won’t be able to view the PDF. If that’s the case, click this:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:IAEFSql95agJ:www.pntf.org/masters/documents/Ultraweight_Rules_Monograph_12-14-08.pdf+ultraweight+pentathlon+manual&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
It is not forbidden to go to http://pntf.org/masters/ and click the link under “Rule Books”
Ban Terry Noyes!!! He has mentioned the forbidden unmentionable!
Ha!!!
Hope you’re having a good season so far, Terry. We’re still stuck indoors here in snowland.
Greg
Must be nice, Greg. I’m a little sunburned from throwing this weekend. We don’t have any indoor alternatives.
Double Ha!!!
I’d kill for a sunburn.
Well, not literally.
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