JanEricDyke
10-14-2007, 03:14 PM
Since Pete's 815 pull generated such a flurry of activity I thought this little tale of Konradt brute strength might be appropos.
Last Friday night I was at Pete's watching him go through a stone workout, a series of progressively heavier singles with minimal rest in between. So he blasts 345, 375, 405, all very easily. Then, he starts sorting through his vast collection of stones and rolls an even larger stone into place, drops down on it, reels it in and easily launches it onto the platform. I figure he is done but instead he finds a still heavier stone, rolls it into place, steps outside into the chill Wisconsin October night, gathers himself, and returns to the din and heat of the boiler room where he trains. He grunts and lowers himself to this mammoth stone, tugs and the stone rises slowly to his knees and he begins to roll it into place but it slips through and drops to the floor.
Not knowing what he had just gone after beyond the easy load of the 405 I ask him about the weights. He tells me that the stone he loaded after the 405 was 435 and the final stone he attempted was 465...so close! We both agreed that it would not be long before that beast would find itself atop the platform and then he mentioned a monster stone, 495, that lay in waiting in the corner of the boiler room that he had his sights on.
So he wanders off to attend to his forearms and to clean the tacky off and I start prepping for my stone workout (with MUCH lighter stones). As I start to roll the giant stone out of my way I notice something odd about the embedded metal emblem that Pete's stones all have, indicating the weight...it does not say 465 but rather it reveals that the stone that Pete had nearly lapped was actually the 495!!! I started laughing and waited for Pete to return.
I inform him of his error and near miss at this giant stone and he says, "It did seem a bit heavy"... What a freak! Anybody that has watched Pete load or pull heavy weights knows that his back is insanely strong and the way the stones were flying up once he lapped them leaves me convinced that had that 495 made it another inch into his lap, it would have made it atop the platform.
I just had to share this, still makes me smile thinking of it...
Last Friday night I was at Pete's watching him go through a stone workout, a series of progressively heavier singles with minimal rest in between. So he blasts 345, 375, 405, all very easily. Then, he starts sorting through his vast collection of stones and rolls an even larger stone into place, drops down on it, reels it in and easily launches it onto the platform. I figure he is done but instead he finds a still heavier stone, rolls it into place, steps outside into the chill Wisconsin October night, gathers himself, and returns to the din and heat of the boiler room where he trains. He grunts and lowers himself to this mammoth stone, tugs and the stone rises slowly to his knees and he begins to roll it into place but it slips through and drops to the floor.
Not knowing what he had just gone after beyond the easy load of the 405 I ask him about the weights. He tells me that the stone he loaded after the 405 was 435 and the final stone he attempted was 465...so close! We both agreed that it would not be long before that beast would find itself atop the platform and then he mentioned a monster stone, 495, that lay in waiting in the corner of the boiler room that he had his sights on.
So he wanders off to attend to his forearms and to clean the tacky off and I start prepping for my stone workout (with MUCH lighter stones). As I start to roll the giant stone out of my way I notice something odd about the embedded metal emblem that Pete's stones all have, indicating the weight...it does not say 465 but rather it reveals that the stone that Pete had nearly lapped was actually the 495!!! I started laughing and waited for Pete to return.
I inform him of his error and near miss at this giant stone and he says, "It did seem a bit heavy"... What a freak! Anybody that has watched Pete load or pull heavy weights knows that his back is insanely strong and the way the stones were flying up once he lapped them leaves me convinced that had that 495 made it another inch into his lap, it would have made it atop the platform.
I just had to share this, still makes me smile thinking of it...