Back in NC

I competed at Boston Indoor Games and finished 3rd again behind Trammell and Hicks. I was in 2nd place until i hit hurdles 3 and 4 with my lead leg hamstring. I shoulda have set another PR but instead ran 7.74.

I am now back in Greenville, NC and training at my old university. Last Weekend i ran at UNC and ran a 7.77.

I have no more indoor meets lined up so i am going to start getting ready for outdoors. I plan on my first meet being MT. Sac Relays, but i May jump in the hurdles at Raleigh Relays. It really depends on how my training goes.

The plan for now is to train in Greenville until i gather the funds to head to Raleigh and train with Coach Steve McGill. We got alot of work to do and errors to clean up and the sooner i can move to Raleigh the better.

I also started lifting for the first time this week. Its been over a month since i lifted weights and i could definitely tell. I am surprisingly still pretty strong. I power cleaned 198x2, 220x2, 242x2 but missed 264.

I also lost all the hard earned weight over these past weeks. i was 181 at the begining of the week but i finallyt started eating properly again this week and today weighed in at 183.5. The goal is to get back to 190 and stay there for the entire season. I think gaining the weight should be easier this time because my body has been there before but we'll see.

if anything interesting happens in these next couple weeks ill update the blog. If not ill update befoer my first outdoor race.

O yea. Puerto Rico is excited about the way ive been running but still are not trying to tell me about funding for 2009. Im reaching a point where i may have to pick up a job like i did last January....

Boston Indoor Games Line Up

So the official Line-Up has finally been posted and it is as follows.

Antwon Hicks
USA
Hector Cotto
PUR
Jeff Porter
USA
Aries Merritt
USA
Ron Bramlett
USA
Terrence Trammell
USA
Aubrey Herring
USA
Ryan Fontenot
USA

After my 3rd place finish at Millrose last week i am just looking to improve upon what i did. I have a couple things to work on this week, and if i stick to the game plan things should go well.

Ill be looking to set a new Personal Record. Be sure to tune in to ESPN at 4pm on Sunday to watch the meet.

Back in Boston

A lot has happened since i last posted a blog.

When i last posted, i was leaving Boston. I did leave Boston but decided to run in a meet i entered before i left. That meet was run at Harvard University, i ran 7.95 in the prelims and 7.80 in the finals. I smashed into the 3rd hurdle but my start was pretty good.

They day after the meet i flew down to NC. I stayed one day and then got word that my grandma passed away and her body was being flown from Rochester, NY to Puerto Rico.

My broke behind had no money so a couple family members had to put money together to get me a flight. after spending less than 24hrs in NC i had a flight scheduled to San Juan Puerto Rico.

The funeral was very nice, if you can say that. I am certain my grandma would have been happy to see most of her family show up. My grandma had been sick for years and although i was sad to see her go, i was at the same time happy that she would no longer have to suffer. I did not cry much. Not because i dont miss her, but because i was honestly happy that she could finally rest after 86 years.

The funeral also allowed me to see my mom for the first time in over a year. She is of course still beautiful so i was happy to see that haha. I saw my sister, whom i hadnt seen in over a year as well so i was happy to see her all grown up too :)

They day after the funeral i went and stayed with a teammate Felix Martinez and begun training. My plan was to stay in Puerto Rico until Feb 5th and then fly out to Boston in time for the Indoor Games.

Early in the week though i received an email asking if id like to fly up to NYC to compete in the Millrose Games. Ofcourse my response was yes and so i changed my flight to fly to NYC.

I went and competed and i am happy with the results. I finished 3rd in a time of 7.72 seconds. The race did not go perfect but i was happy to have finished in the medals (which i didnt even know they gave out at Millrose)

I false started for the first time ever in my life. I honestly dont think i false started, but the computer on my blocks showed that i left in a reaction time of .90 which is .10 under the legal limit.

I still got a decent start when we were reset. I felt i ran up on the first hurdle again, but i got back into rhythm sooner than in the past and was able to run a new PR.

I am now back in Boston and will train here until the Boston Indoor Games this weekend and then fly back down to NC.