Had some pretty good throwing this weekend at our little black sheep open called Scotstoberfest held at the wood river winery in Eagle Idaho.

I had been practicing the spin and glide a lot and thought I could make that work. Last week went back into a simple shuffle with a big pop at the end throwing my block arm hard and was throwing much further with that. So yesterday with a 19lb. open stone I just went out there and threw at 30'7" on my first attempt with the shuffle. It was my goal for 2009 to break 30 and i didn't think I would do it cause it's about the end of the year. I also threw some small personal records 25'7" on braemar and 82'7" on light hammer. Last year I broke 80 on light hammer but I have not broken 80ft all year till just now.

On the LWFD just last week I threw 2 in a row at 49 feet in practice with no warmup at all so I thought I might have something nice at this games, but once again it all fell apart and my best was only at about 40. I seem to choke at the contest but throw well when practicing it alone.