Mike and Paula's Journal of Life, Love and Ever-Changing Goals

[partsRheavy]

I love these pics!!!!!!!! Very inspirational!!!! You guys REST and EAT these next few days!!!!!

[Baldiewonkanobi]

Did you kids remember to put your toys away when done?


Baldie

[freebirdmac]

Great job you two!!!

So you guys are not doing the one in July at all?

[gman]

Did you kids remember to put your toys away when done?


Baldie

We tend to use the toys so much, we just leave them out!

Great job you two!!!

So you guys are not doing the one in July at all?

We will attend, but not compete. We will be moving that weekend into my old house, and then we will spend a lot of time fixing things up, so we will spend the summer training. We both need to train harder and get better at overhead pressing. The beer keg press is impossible as they have it in the July 2 meet. I would have to do 154, 180 and 200 lb kegs, and Paula would have to do 50, 100 and 154!!! I can push press only about 180lbs with a normal bb right now.

We are thinking about competing in a highland games in late October or another one in early November which is going to be hosted by Gene Flynn down in Currituck County NC.

[BEAST MODE]

Glad you guys had fun! Looks/sounds like you did better than you expected.

[gman]

Glad you guys had fun! Looks/sounds like you did better than you expected.

My goal was to succeed at the highland games events, and I did both...I threw the caber at 11:00, and got weight over bar at 10'. I did really well at the strongman medleys, but I can tell you, almost everyone died pulling a chain 50'...everyone was trucking up until they hit 35-40' and then their legs turned to jelly...I fell with about 5' left, but got my ass back up and finished!

Paula did great too, I am really proud of her for trying so hard, and she is going to get better really fast.

Just to show you how well she did: There were only two ladies, Paula and a 28 year old, 5'9" girl. Since there were only 2 people, I believe they scored the events 2 points for the winner of the event, and 1 point for 2nd. Paula won the keg/sandbag medley, lost the wieght over bar, and lost the caber toss. So she was down 5-4 going into the wheelbarrow/chain medley. The 28 year old beat her by 1 second, so won 7-4. If Paula had gone 2 seconds faster she would have tied the girl 5-5, and would have won overall because the highland games rules award the tiebreaker to the lighter competitor. So that 2 seconds meant a lot!

[BEAST MODE]

Way to go Paula! No issues w/ the sandbag for you, I assume.

[gman]

Way to go Paula! No issues w/ the sandbag for you, I assume.

it felt like a feather. I guess the adrenaline takes over. I did fall with the first beer keg, a 180lber. It was weird, I was basically running with it, and just fell...didn't even feel heavy. I got up and finished that one too.

[BEAST MODE]

Adrenaline is badass! When it's time to perform, you just do it. Proud of you 2!

[blu2xtreme]

Thanks everyone ... Mike and I are so excited about future strongman events. We trained hard for this and we are ready to gear up for more training.
How can you not love a sport that you get to eat hard ...train hard and play even harder ... all with your best friend

[gman]

I love these pics!!!!!!!! Very inspirational!!!! You guys REST and EAT these next few days!!!!!

Didn't see this PRH! Thanks for checking in, and we are gluttons...we start training again tonight, but I am not thinking it will be too brutal!

I ate enough the last few days to last me a while.

[gman]

The results were posted and here is how I stacked up against the very experienced big boys:

Weight over bar
Heath Thiel, 297lbs (I believe he is 41): 16'
Tim Stallings, 273lbs (I believe he is 43): 15'
Me (49 years young, 217lbs): suckish at only 10'

Keg/Keg/Sandbag carry and load medley:
Heath: 31 seconds
Tim: 29 seconds
Me: 39 seconds

Caber Toss:
Heath: 12 o'clock on attempt 2
Tim: 12 o'clock on attempt 1
Me: 11 o'clock on attempt 2

Wheelbarrow push/chain pull medley:
Heath: 27 seconds
Tim: 29 seconds
Me: 34 seconds

I was disappointed on the medleys, but have to remember how big these guys are, how much younger they are than I , and the fact they have tons of experience!