Wednesday Night Flights at Armstrong
What:Full Service Pole Vault Competitions
Where:Armstrong High School
When:June 16, 23, 30, and July 7, 14, 21, 28
--The pit opens at 4pm, 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 $12cash, 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 meet
1) You may use our full line of poles
--you agree to purchase any poles you damage
2) We will have 2-3 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 fo two formats for meets
"Mulligan-Meet" if there are a lot of people
--Each competitor gets 30min warm-up on the runway, even if they come late (we have too many people for unlimited warm-ups)
--5-Alive will be in effect, although multiple heights will be active at any one time
--each vaulter gets a single 4th attempt (Mulligan)
10-Jump meet if there are not many people
--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
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7/14 meet cancelled
tornado warning + heat index + real chance of rain = NO GO
We are a GO for 7/21 meet
we will run a traditional meet tonight
The weather looks good
We are a GO for the 7/28 meet
Today we will run a 10-jump meet, but still attempt a 5-alive format:
--once bars are started, an athlete will continue with bars until finished (no mid-competition warm-up jumps)
--once an athlete clears a bar, they are done until the next "height/rotation," so others can jump
--once an athlete misses 3 in a row, they are done until the next "height/rotation"
Observations of the traditional-meet of last week:
1-the meet saw more PR's
2-the line was shorter and was thereby easier for athletes
3-no-heighting (having less than 6-jumps) created feelings of a lack of value
ONE MORE WEEK!!!!!!
Weather permitting--we will jump August 4th, same time and same format