2012 Missouri's Strongest Man: The Gus Lohman Memorial

I went into this competition expecting a pretty close battle between the top 3 or 4, and it ended up being a battle between myself and Spencer Remick for the top 2 spots overall.

Log
260 for reps

I ended up with 9 and tied for second overall. First was 13 reps, which I think on a more level surface I could have hit. I could not keep my balance and could not get in a rhythm because we were pressing on a slight decline.

Farmers Walk
280 per hand for about 80 feet

I finished in 10.xx seconds and got second overall by like half a second. So this one just came down to who was on the stop watch basically.

Tire Flip
700 pound tire for 80 feet

31.xx seconds I believe and first place overall by about a second. I stumbled on the last flip because my feet were in a dip in the ground and my foot slipped in my shoe. It still worked out though.

Car Deadlift

I needed 24 reps for first and ended up with 20. I got 21 just after time ran out. I feel like I was at a slight disadvantage on this event going last. The car deadlift frame was set on grass, and so as each person went it sunk down a little deeper. By the time I went I had to pull it out of the holes and so I couldn't get the bounce that a lot of people were getting off the ground. That's still not an excuse though because I took a couple breathers that cost me time and reps. Overall deadlift strength needs to come up, and my conditioning could use work.

Duck walk / Sled drag medley
340 duck walk loaded into a tire and dragged back, 80 feet each way.

Spenser destroyed this event and finished in a little over 30 seconds, so even if I had won the car deadlift he would have won overall. I finished in a little over a minute I think. The drag was brutal.

I finished first place in the superheavy class, and second place overall in the heavyweight division. I think third place overall was quite a ways back, and second place in the superheavies was quite a ways back from me too.

This was an extremely efficient meet, and even with 40 competitors and all those events to keep having to reset we finished in just over 4 hours. It is always a good time to get to see all my strongman friends at these competitions and to watch most of them compete. There was a lot of impressive lifting all day long. It was also a really interesting venue since it was incorporated into Belton Community Days which is basically a carnival, so there was a pretty sizable crowd all day long.