At the moment Austin (site of the NCAA Championships) is flooding with buckets of rain. What are the worst conditions you folks endured during a competition?
Mine was an early season four-way meet in Salt Lake City high jumping in a light rain, steady breeze and temps in the low 40's. The jumping apron was an old style rubberized asphalt that seemed to allow the water to percolate down and kept pretty good traction. But they kept the tarp over the pit to keep the foam pads from soaking so each jump ended with a big splash into 2-3 inches of accumulated freezing rainwater. Some guy from Idaho and I were the only ones stubborn and dumb enough to keep clearing the bar. Once we got that miserable neither of us wanted to walk away without winning. I finally prevailed on fewer misses. While the officials ran for cover we shook hands and both started laughing like crazy.
Mine was an early season four-way meet in Salt Lake City high jumping in a light rain, steady breeze and temps in the low 40's. The jumping apron was an old style rubberized asphalt that seemed to allow the water to percolate down and kept pretty good traction. But they kept the tarp over the pit to keep the foam pads from soaking so each jump ended with a big splash into 2-3 inches of accumulated freezing rainwater. Some guy from Idaho and I were the only ones stubborn and dumb enough to keep clearing the bar. Once we got that miserable neither of us wanted to walk away without winning. I finally prevailed on fewer misses. While the officials ran for cover we shook hands and both started laughing like crazy.
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