100 Days are Gone!

Exactly one third of my training time is over.  I’m not sure if I’m happy or sad about that.  I definitely know that I am not yet ready to compete at Worlds. 

Since Daylight Saving Time went off at the beginning of November, I have been focusing on weight training and cardio during visits to my local YMCA.  It is too dark to play disc golf after work, so this gives me something to do every day to stay busy training.

Generally, if I have the chance, I play some disc golf on the weekends, weather permitting.  This weekend was one of those times.  Both Saturday and Sunday we had rain showers, but I considered them practice for what Worlds would be like if the day was rainy.

Let’s just say that I’m hoping that won’t be what happens in July!  Yikes!  It added a few more steps to every throw when I had to wipe each disc after it was thrown. 

I did learn a few things during practice.  

• First of all, I am getting stronger.  My throws are starting to go farther.  The remarkable thing about that is I’m not practicing the actual form of disc golf right now.  I feel very “rusty” on the rare weekend day when I can play.  Which brings me to point two:  
• There is nothing like a lot of regular practice to get my body moving the way it needs to move for maximum affect.  At my age, I need to continually work on form so that I don’t have to think about it so much during match play.  
• My foot continues to ache as it has ever since playing in Charlotte over Thanksgiving.  I think that it was so cold there that I never properly warmed up, and may have strained the tendons in my right foot. 
• So point four is that I need to warm up my joints before starting to throw.  
• Point five would be that I still need to lose more weight so that I can better tolerate all the walking/standing that is required during a round of golf.

One hundred days of training has gone by in a flash.  In four months I return to the doctor to see what my blood work shows.  That will be a good goal period to see how much more weight I can lose before the World Championships.  

In two months I will be competing at Barnett Park in Orlando, where I will have to throw over open water and make it on the island.  Good practice for throwing over water at Worlds.  In three months, I will be competing in the Sunshine State Shootout.  Another milestone as I will not have much opportunity to practice on the actual course where this competition will be held.  

At the end of May, the Orlando Open will be held at Bill Frederick Park.  This will be a perfect chance to see how much I have improved since last competing there at the first of September.

So lots of milestones are set in place.  There is still a lot of training to do, but I can see that by the time Worlds actually begins, I will be wishing that I had even more time to prepare.  

200 Days to Worlds