Use of weights is meant to be a good thing as you get a bit older. Now I have trouble gripping normal weights which are attached to bars. Dumbells also give me finger trouble, so I dusted off my shot put which was still laying around. This is a weight that requires an open palm to handle and it is a brute of a canonball. For the last two months I have been hefting it around and balancing it with one hand. My left arm is still dodgy since I dragged that sheet of rubber matting up the hill and I have previously had bursitus and tendonitis in that elbow but so far so good.
I ordered a new shot that is age appropriate, being 4kg and it arrived yesterday. Way back when, I could get the canonball out over 12 metres so what would it be like nowadays. I took it down to the beach for a first try. My main aim was not to hurt anything. So after a 50 yar hiatus, I tried a simple stand and deliver. It went out about 6 metres. So then came the reverse crouch and I estimate this was around 8 metres. A good goal would be 10 metres but who knows where this might go.
PS This week Ryan Crouser (USA) sent a canonball (7.26kg) out 22.34 m to take gold.
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| Arty photo. I could barely find enough sand to put on |
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