@GeePawHill I remember being on the high school track team and seeing what looked like sheer insanity: kids my age running full-tilt, hoping to plant that wobbly pole in exactly the right spot, hoping to be able to push it however is right (lord knows I never tried) to go airborne and forward and up over down onto the mat. There are a whole lotta wrong ways to pole vault and it looked like at speed most of them hurt pretty good. It’s all very vivid and ready to be seen in my mind’s eye the moment anything like “run fast and hard and straight at something” gets said 🙂

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