Sunday, March 4, 2007

Mar. 4 - Iowa State vs. Iowa and Minnesota -Warmups

Hi folks,

With the weather troubles finally cleared up, Minnesota finally made it down to Iowa - just a different location than originally planned. After Friday's Minnesota-Iowa State meet in Ames was cancelled, Minnesota was added to the bill in Iowa City today, making this a triangular meet.

By the way, to give you an idea of how bad the wetaher was in Iowa on Thursday and Friday, I drove past a whopping 70 cars in the ditch during the 2 1/2 hour drive from Ames to Iowa City. I counted every single car. 53 of them were in the half-hour drive from Ames to the interstate mixmaster north of Des Moines.

Iowa uses a funky setup for its meets, but it looks functional. For gymnastics meets, Iowa sections of part of its Field House, which is primary rec center for students on campus and also home of Iowa's pool. For those of you in Ames, it would be like holding a meet on the center turf of the Lied Rec Center.

As far as warmups go, all three teams have struggled on beam, so it will be interesting to see how the scores shake out.

I'll be back after the first rotation,
Cody

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