Wednesday Night Flights at Armstrong
What:
Full Service Pole Vault CompetitionsWhere:
Armstrong High SchoolWhen:
Wednesdays June 12th through July 31st
--The pit opens at 3:30pm, for warm-ups
--The pit closes at 8pm, mosquito's are too thick after that
--All meets are pending the weather--A final call on bad weather will be made no later than 3pm meet day
What do you have to do?:1) Check the weather and decide if it looks good enough to jump
2) Check this Post to make sure the meet has not been canceled--please don't call, the meet is a GO unless we post it here that it is cancelled
3) bring $15 cash (entry fee)
4) bring your own water, food, sunscreen, bug-spray, etc.
5) bring your own poles if you want
What is provided: is a full service meet1) You may use our full line of poles
--you agree to purchase any poles you damage
2) We will have 3 paid workers running the meet, placing crossbars, and adjusting standards
3) Any crossbar breakage is also covered by the entry fee
4) We run one of two formats for meets
"
Mulligan-Meet 2.0"
--the pit will open at
3:30pm for warm-ups
--initial bars start at
4:15pm for those that wish to begin--others will wait the hour for the 5:15 WU break
--5-Alive will be in effect, although multiple heights will be active at any one time
--each vaulter gets a single 4th attempt (Mulligan)
--We will have a warm-up break at
5:15pm. Late arrivals and those who waited after the 4:15 meet beginning will have 2-min per athlete. For example: if (5) people arrive/start late, the warm-up period will be 10min long.
--We will have a second warm-up break at
6:15pm (2min/athlete) for the very Late arrivals and those who have not yet touched the runway.
--There will be NO wam-up break after 6:15
"
10-Bar meet" if there are 15 people or less
--unlimited warm-up
--10-bars placed at heights for your choice (0" and 6" one week, 3" and 9" alternate weeks)
One more thing:
We usually go out for pizza afterward--all are welcome