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Not an outlier...

 
Switching things up again this week, with a solo post for session 14 in the full speed spectrum program, as I think it's worth showing the direct comparison with session 13.

Once again it was a 5 set session with two sets at 220g's acting as the bread in a two step set sandwich, one at 80g and one at 20g.

Interestingly, the 20g is the lowest weight you can have on the stack and it's the first time I've swung with so little on there. It's also the first time I've been over the 110 mark, I believe, with a 112mph being the highest achieved in that set.

As always, there was a low effort thrown in there, where I just didn't time up things in the kinetic chain correctly, which obviously has a bearing on the average.

The good thing about having the same weight in set 1 and 4 is that you have a target in mind too, as I'm pretty much always going to be slower out of the gate in that first set but it's nice to see another 3mph gain between the two set averages.

Moving onto the 195g, it was slightly slower than in my previous session but not by much, which is really encouraging, as for some reason I thought (even though I felt much quicker at the time) perhaps the radar had given the wrong readings (maybe I'd positioned it differently etc, even though I've got a mark on the bay floor where it needs to be placed now, as I use the same one each time).

Anyway, another good session but there's still much more to come!

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