We saluted and I switch to buddy-flying mode extending our thermal. It’s hard to get a good practice in when you’re out there breaking your back shoveling. On July 8th, Igor Casu set a new Romanian distance record (345 Km) on his Enzo 3.
“I didn’t get much practice this week and I paid for it,” Choquette said. “I was aiming for 60 feet, and I got that on my last throw, but I couldn’t save it at the end.”Ĭhoquette, who had come in with a seed 21⁄2 feet longer than what he threw, blamed his performance on a lack of work. “I’m disappointed and upset,” Choquette said. That bested the old mark of Waterford’s Todd Hoffa, set in 1985, by 51⁄4 inches. Plainfield’s Josh Choquette set the first meet record when he threw 53-51⁄2 in the shot put. It was the second consecutive year that Rouse brought home three first-place medals from the championship meet. I almost fell in the process,” Rouse said with a chuckle. “It was probably the best lean effort I had ever done. Rouse finished all of four one-hundredths of a second better than Connelly, just holding him off at the end, according to an exhausted Rouse. “I knew I had to outkick him at the end and it was a great finish.” The trio wanted to be the most prepared team in the competition. “He’s a great kid to race with,” Rouse said of Connelly. WR world record Buddy considered a run for the next Mexico Olympic Games in 1968. The 300-meter race between Rouse and Stonington’s Jim Connelly saw both runners finish below the 36.64 record set two years ago by Ledyard’s Fred Hewett.
“There’s more pressure on us, but everyone did their part and did really good,” Strmiska said of the distance runners. The Wolverines recorded 18 points each in the 1,000-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter races. With that pressure upon them, the Wolverines used what they’re known for, their excellence in distance events, to claim the victory.