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2025 Year in Review

The fledgling High Country Vigour club completed its 2nd year with (6) members.  We were able to host (7) events including (3) USAWA championships.  

I participated in another (14) event remotely and traveled to (2) events.  These numbers do not include the (4) postal events and (12) BSAG events.  My daughters and I traveled to Nationals in Albany.  Ratna and I traveled to Belfast for Worlds.

It was a tumultuous year as an organization with the Board of Directors rolling over multiple times, grievances filed and overall low enthusiasm for all-round in the second half of the year.  I was elected Secretary, resigned and was brought back on the board as VP.  Joe is the current President, Bill is the current Treasurer, Eric and Chad are board members at large.
  1. 1/18 Bayou Beast Bash (remote entry, 4th out of 7 entries) - Remote
  2. 1/25 Ed Zercher Memorial Strength Classic (remote entry, 4th out of 4 entries) - Remote
  3. 3/1 Colorado Single Arm Challenge (7th out of 9 men) - HOSTED
  4. 3/8 Jeff's Birthday Bash*** - Remote
  5. 4/5 Club Championship (620 pound total) - HOSTED
  6. 4/12 Bench Press Heptathlon (750 pound total) - Remote
  7. 5/3 USAWA Grip Championship (569 pound total) - HOSTED
  8. 5/3 New Zealand Open - Remote
  9. 6/28 Tony Lupo Lightweight Decathlon Challenge (442.5 pounds) - Remote
  10. 7/19 USAWA Nationals - Albany, KY (824 pounds, 20/24 men; 21/29 overall) - Live
  11. 7/31 Andy Goddard World Postal (660 pounds) - Remote
  12. 8/2 Clark's Gym Record Day (5 records set) - Remote
  13. 9/13 Colorado OTSM Classic - 528 pounds - HOSTED
  14. 9/14 USAWA One Ton Challenge - 1395 pounds - Remote
  15. 9/27 Two Fisted Challenge - 690 pounds - Remote
  16. 10/4 IAWA Worlds - Belfast, Northern Ireland - 550kg - Live
  17. 11/8 High Country Vigour Cup - Apollons Lift - 143 pounds, plus (4) records - HOSTED
  18. 12/7 USAWA Backbreaker - 1790 pounds - Remote
  19. 12/13 IAWA OTSM World Postal - 334.9 KG - Remote
  20. 12/20 USAWA Team Lift Championship - 790 pounds with Jarrod - HOSTED
  21. 12/27 USAWA NYE Record Breaker - (5) records - Remote
Looking forward to 2026.  Clark's Gym has committed to hosting (13) events.  We will sanction at least (4).  I intend to travel to Nationals in Columbia, MO and Worlds in Lebanon, PA.  I don't expect our membership to grow.  I decided to drop BSAG for 2026.  The other big all-round news is the formation of the Old Time Strongman Organization by Clint, Chris and Kyle.  This should bring much needed relief to the rift between purists and progressive leadership.
  • HCV Challenge (2/14)
  • Grip Championship (4/18)
  • HCV Cup (7/25)
  • Team Lift Championship (12/19)

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