NYC

Time for an update.

So my second meet of the year was at the Brown Invitational in Rhode Island. I won with a 14.31 and i was pretty pissed of course. it was 50 degrees outside and drizzling so ofcourse i was mad about that as well.

My third race cam last night at the New Balance NYC meet in Ichan Stadium. In my prelim race i ran a horrendus 14.93. I smashed hurdles with my lead leg (like ive been doing all year) and i was forced to literaly "jump" a couple hurdles.

Even still i finished 9th and though id mad the finals. that wasnt to be the case though because they decided to only bring 8 back to the finals (even though they were running 2 heat finals in every other event). so i spoke with the meet director and she allowed me to run in the final. i am very thankful for that because there was no way i could go home with a 14.93.

so i had lane 1 in the finals and ran a clean 13.83. i was sitting in about 3rd place until the last 2 hurdles when i really made a surge for the line. as usual i had a mediocre start and had to get back in to the race towards the end.

I sprinted thru the line, dipped, but finished second to the winner who ran 13.82.

so 13.83 is nothing special but at least i had a clean race and sprinted through the line. i still have tons to work on, mainly my start, so im feeling pretty confident about the season.

my next 2 meets are in Puerto Rico. i have a Grand Prix meet (the 2nd anual) in Ponce on the 17th and then our national meet the following week.

I am looking to hit the A standard (13.55) by the end of the month, so hopefully i put some nice races together down there. the weather should be beautiful as always, and the track is fast so there should be no excuses.

We are going to start doing somre serious speed work pretty soon so i should see a nice drop in my times soon.

many of you (15 fans) might not know this but im not really in "May" shape because, like last year, i started training seriously in January and so had to do alot of base and conditioning work in the months that i should been doing transition and race-prep work.

so for those wondering why im running 14.3 and 14.9 in May thats why. its because im still playing catch up.

the meet yesterday in NYC was really a spur of the moment meet that i wasnt sure if i was gonna run at and i have to thank the guys from the Greater Boston Track Club for submitting my entry and also providing transportation to and from the meet. They are some nice guys who really love the sport and even though many arent aiming to run at the Olympics or any big meets like i am they still go out there and train their asses off for the love of the sport. very nice to see no in day, especially with all the scandals the sport has seen over the past few years.

but anyways, thats all for now.

Ill try to update this again after the grand prix meet this saturday with the results and hopefully some video.