Well this was a very interesting week for me. Every practice I went to I felt tired and my
legs did not want to work with me…not a good sign. I have been traveling around the country so
much lately that my legs felt like a hundred pounds each even though I tried
everything to get them recovered as much as possible…nothing worked. Uh oh, I thought, I’m in trouble for the up
and coming meet…The Millrose Games in NYC.
To make matters worse, I didn’t have the best experience
with traveling on Air Tran Friday morning.
I got 3 hrs of sleep the night before, because I had to get up at 3:30am
to catch my 6:30am flight. Never again
do I want to travel that early 2 days before a meet. When I got there, they didn’t want to take my
poles even though they have a vaulting pole policy which I showed them. Thank you Air Tran for finally taking my
poles! But then it took about 20 mins to
get through security, and by that time I was the last one to get to the gate, they
said the flight was over-sold, and I wouldn’t be able to get to NYC until
midnight that night! Luckily they let 2
more people on, and I was the last one to make it on the plane! Keep in mind this happened all before
6:30am! Ugh!
Once I got to NYC my luck did a 180! My poles were out before I got down to
baggage claim and 2 athletes from Fordham Prep High School were already there
standing by them ready to go! Thank you
Brian Carney, James, and Sean! When I
got to the hotel I found out that Mary Saxer and I were roommates…and
everything was alllll good! Such a
loooong day so far and it was only noon! We spent the day together walking around Central Park and exploring a tiny portion of NYC! So much fun!
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| Thank You NIKE for my new Flyknit Shoes! |
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| Mary and I in Central Park! |
The Millrose Games is the most historic and prestigious
track and field meet in the US during the indoor season. It’s been going on for 106 years now where
the best of the best come together and compete!
It was such an honor to get invited to vault in this meet! The Millrose Games got moved from Madison
Square Garden to the Armory in 2012. I
had never jumped there before, and I was in awe of the sold out crowd. It gives me goose bumps just thinking about
the meet again!
So I get to the meet Saturday night and immediately was
pumped up by the atmosphere and the amount of people that were already
there! I put everything involving my tired legs out of my mind and focused on what I needed to do to jump high. I decided to open up the
competition at my highest opening bar ever, 4.40m(14’5”). I felt confident from my last 2
competitions. Plus I thought that if I
want to jump high, I need to come in higher to save my energy for those 15’
bars. It worked! I cleared 4.40m(14’5”) on my first attempt, 4.55m(14’11”)
on my second attempt, and 4.65m(15’3”) also on my second attempt! The bar went up to 4.75m(15’7”) and I had 2
good attempts at it, blowing through the bar, but couldn’t leave it up
there. All in all, I am so happy to have
cleared another indoor PR for the 3rd week in a row, especially
after the difficult travel and my legs not being up to par. It's amazing what the power of the mind can do. :)
Today I am leaving with the Indiana State University’s Track
and Field team to help coach at their Missouri Valley Conference Championship
meet! I haven’t been to a conference
meet in almost 3 years! It should be
quite fun and quite different seeing as how I’m on the coaching side of the
spectrum for this weekend! Good Luck to
all of my ISU athletes! :)
My next competition is USA Indoor Nationals on March 2nd
in Albuquerque, NM!
Thanks for reading!
Kylie
@ratherBvaulting
www.facebook.com/pv.kylie
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