UPDATE ON MY LIFE

Ok so i havent written since my birthday and there have been a couple updates since then. so here are what i can think of off the top of my head.

1) School started- im passing all classes and i graduate December 14th :D

2) Started training again- I was scheduled to start training the first week of October, but i was a little anxious so i started the last week in September. its been going pretty well. Monday is Plyo day and its the first time ive ever done plyos. the first week my legs damn near fell off, but im feeling good now and im able to get thru all my workouts.

3) My mom finally got her divorce- So my mom has been dealing with some crap from her ex-husband for the past 2 years but its officially over :) he did her pretty dirty after 12 years and it was prety hard on the entire family but things are better now. she is doing fine and life is better now :D woop woop

4) I Have a new girl- me and my ex broke up because we grew apart in the 2 months that i was traveling. but ive been seeing a new girl and we decided to start dating recently. hopefully my travels will not affect this relationship, but we'll just have to wait and see.

5)I put up 305 on the bench- haha. i finally put up more than 300 pounds on the bench press so i was pretty happy about that. i worked pretty hard in the weight room from august-october and now i can say i bench more than 300. lol. i also power cleaned 264. my goal is to power clean more than 300 by this time next year. i rarely squat, so im sure that as soon as i step my squatting game up my power clean will fly.

6)I will be an assistant coach when i graduate- So i contacted my old HS, and they told me that when i graduate i can be an assistant coach in track and field. that should be pretty cool. i will coach during the afternoons and train in the evenings or mornings with coach McGill.

7)Marion Jones came clean- I wasn't surprised at all. thats the way the game works. Lots of athletes out there are on drugs but the truth is that not ALL are. It sucks how the media in the USA picks up all the negative shit about track and field but rarely mentions anything else. When Asafa Powell broke the WR there wasnt as much publicity. And im sorry to me running 9.74 is alot more impressive than hitting 70 home runs in baseball. but yea, Marion Jones came clean. i feel bad for her, she made a shit load of money during her career and i really hope she invested a good bit so shes not in the poor house. I honestly dont think she ever needed to take PEDs to be succesfull but she did and now shes having to suffer the consequences. hopefully shes healthy and will not have any negative health problems due to the drugs she took.

8) My Bills almost beat the Cowboys- :( my heart melted when the Cowboys won in those last seconds of the Monday night game last week. Im a die hard Buffalo Bills fan and it sucks they have been so horrible for so long. i still support them and i hope one day they get back on top.

thats all i guess. just random thoughts of my life off the top of my head.

23

So on this day 1984 i was born.

I am 23 today yay for me! :D

I got a couple phone calls from friends, and i got some presents from my girlfriend.

Not sure if ill do anything tonight, might go out with the fellas, might not.

Either way its been a pretty boring day so far but its all good, because im enjoying having nothing to do.

thanks to all who called or left me facebook messages wishing me a happy birthday!

I'm now 1 day older than i was yesterday and can say im 23 lol.

ok so things didnt go as well as id hoped. i finished dead last in 14.09. my reaction was by far the worst in the field at .260 quite possibly the worst reaction ever by a hurdler. the rain didnt bother met at all so i really have no excuses. i felt GREAT (caps for emphasis) before the race. i was excited to run and felt very confident that id run fast.

in the blocks i told my self to listen for the gun. all i heard was the crowd though. they held us in the ready position forever but once we were in set the gun was fast. i did not react to the gun instead i reacted to dayron robles in lane 6 next to me. his reaction was .102 faster than mine. i actually saw his first foot plant before i even reacted.

im really upset because i feel like i did not run the fastest i could have ran this year. its a really bad feeling to know you should be running 13.4/5 but not being able to put everything together for the races.

im greatful for the experience and the opportunities though. i was given plenty of chances to prove myself and i just didnt do it.

so thats it for this year. now i head back to PR and then back to NC on the 1st. im not sure if ill continue to run next year because quite honestly its not a very profitable. if puerto rico decides to put me on the payroll then ill be at this full time starting in september. but if not then ill more than likey just work a regular 9-5 in janurary when i get my degree in mechanical design :)

i really hope to be able to go at this track thing hardcore next year for the olympics. ive already made the B standard for the olympics but we will see what happens.

only time will tell. any questions or comments feel free to email me. ill put the race up as soon as someone posts it to youtube.

here is the difference between where i am and where i wanna be


sad :(

-Cotto

Pan Ams

Today were the prelims at the pan am games. i was in heat 3 of 3 and i ran out of lane 3. I knew going into the race that it should be the easiest heat to qualify from and it was. Last night i figured id have to beat either Maurice Wignall or Yoel Hernandez to get an entry to the finals. Wignall did not show up so i pretty much knew i had an easy run to the finals. i got out bad, floated every hurdle BUT ran across the line hard to finish second and make the finals in 13.92 hernandez took the easy win with 13.91.

it was an extremly slow race but no complaining from me seeing as i go to the finals.

tomorrow i run at 4:20pm local and i am in lane 7. Dayron Robles (13.00) is in lane 6. My goal is to keep as close to him as possible and set a personal record and new Puerto Rican national record. I still have World Championships on my mind so lets see what happens.

Im pretty confident i can do it so tomorrow i should be updating the blog with great news :D

im out..

-Cotto