Frank Nash Snares A Few Headlines Of His Own
We mentioned earlier that conditions were very cooperative for the explosive events as well.
Nobody benefitted more from those conditions than Pueblo West's Frank Nash.
It didn't take Nash long to get started on his day. Frank Nash blew out of the blocks with the starting pistol of the 100. The next 100 meters went by like magic.
Moments later, the electronic timing system kicked back the answer--10.79. The wind gauge added its affirmation: +0.9.
Nash had shattered both the meet record and his personal record (by .35 seconds) in one stunning effort. Everything came together for that 100 meters.
But, things weren't done coming together for Nash.
As afternoon faded into evening, Nash took to the track again for the 200 meters. His 22.42 (-2.9) came up just short of a personal best set at last year's state meet, but was good enough for second to Nik Chappee's 21.99.
Nash still wasn't done yet. He had qualified for long jump finals, but the long jump was running long and would wait to be completed until after the meet intermission at 6 PM had begun.
Until this year, Nash had been a high-average kind of long jumper--easily good enough to place in some meets, but not a threat to blow things apart.
That's been changing with this season as high PR had moved, prior to the Pueblo Twilight, from 20-10 to 20-10.5 to 22-1.5.
That 22-1.5 seems to have triggered something.
Nash hit 23-11 on one of his attempts on Friday, assuring him of the event title. Still, the urge to go after one more big one was there.
Urge met with reality in this instance as Nash closed out the day's field event competition with a monster leap of 24-6.5. That is the longest certifiably wind-legal jump in Colorado in a very long time. It also happens to be the best long jump mark in the nation for this season at the moment.
A very big day, indeed.