2006 WMA Indoors

[rainbowgirl28]

Would you like to compete at the 2006 World Masters Indoor Championships in Linz, Austria?

Ken Stone details how.

http://masterstrack.com/blog/archives/000540.html

[DBH027]

I would love to go to this meet...but....how do get your poles over there?

Can somebody comment who went to San Sebastian. I know Lufthansa will carry pole vault poles and I believe at no extra charge, but don't know if a plane large enough will fly into Linz.

I don't want to freight them because that is a little dicey and could take weeks with the risk of them not showing up.

Comments?

[master]

Pole transport is the million dollar question. I was just looking through all the pdf brochure info for WMA2006 in hopes of seeing something in there, but alas I found nothing. Undoubtably it will take an email or two (or more) to someone there in order to find out just how you can move poles into Austria and around Linz.

I think you are right on by asking people who went to San Sebastian how they managed their poles. I just hope someone has answers early enough to be of some use.

[DBH027]

Northwest/KLM can fly poles, you have to fly into Vienna....Lufthansa will also fly poles, same routing, into Vienna...

Sent an email to the organizing committee in Austria, they assured me that you get your poles to Austria, and they will get them to the track in Linz, even from Vienna...

[master]

That's good news! Now I'm back to the biggest "threat" to making these long range plans, that being whether I can trust my body to be vault-capable in March. Having experienced the frustration of trying to jump with a hobbled body at the Nationals in August, I don't want to go through that experience again. But I guess that's just one of the hazards of being this old.

[DBH027]

What day did you compete in Hawaii? I jumped on Friday...seen many of your posts, would have been nice to meet you...

[master]

Hi, I competed on Saturday in the M55-59 age group. That competition was the first vaulting I did since I strained my left gastroc at the Hayward Classic on June 19th, so it had been 7 weeks since I jumped over a crossbar. I was able to run hard without pain, but I had no consistancy in my strides from jump to jump. Because of that I opened much lower than I normally do and my steps were close enough that I jumped and cleared that height. (video in wmv format or in mov format). But at my next height my steps were so bad I barely got off the ground on the first two attempts and the third was so far off I just ran through. Fortunately I was in Hawaii on a two week vacation and the rest of the trip was wonderful and that got my mind off the frustration of not performing up to my expectations.
- master

[DBH027]

I recognize you now...I met you at the Hayward Classic, I was sitting right next to you, I remember you injuring yourself...I was jumping in M 35-39....Hawaii was a great meet with the tailwind, my only problem was a broken pole, then after that all I had left was one a little too small and one a little too big...

[master]

I see you are from the Bay area and I think I remember talking to a younger vaulter at Hayward who had come up from California. I'm guessing that was you!

At the Indoors 2006, I will have just had my birthday so I will be in the next age group. It would be an ideal time for me to compete. There are a lot of positives about the event, but I have had enough injuries that I am a little phobic about making a committment to such a big trip. I will start some indoor jumping soon and I hope to gauge my condition from those workouts. Meantime I keep an eye on airfares looking for a promo/cheap ticket. I think hotels will also be a big cost. If you go will you be making hotel reservations through the WMA? I think I read that you are supposed to do that, but it seems to me a person could find less expensive housing on the web.

- master

[DBH027]

Anyone else going to Linz to vault?

[master]

Anyone else going to Linz to vault?

Your question seems to imply you are going. Is that the case? What airlines are you flying? How much was the ticket? My recent checking would indicate a price of about $900 - $1000. Will you be taking your poles or have you found out if they will have any there they will let us use?
- master

[DBH027]

I am going...will probably stop off in boston on the way back to jump at the US Indoors

KLM airlines through Amsterdam flying into Vienna, $700...

KLM takes poles, $80 each way (actually it is Northwest's Policy)

Lufthansa also takes poles, fly through Frankfurt...

You have to start in a city that these airlines fly into, but NWA flys most cities, KLM flys straight into Seattle, I am out of San Fran...

The organizers in Linz have assured me that if I get me and my poles to Vienna, they will get me and my poles to Linz and back again!