Where should I begin.....
Lets start with the absolute craziness thats been going on in the world of Professional track and field shall we.
Usain Bolt: Ok so this young man has been a monster of a athlete from a very young age. At 15 or 16 he becomes the youngest sprinter to ever win a world junior title at the 200m distance. Then a year or two later, he re-writes history and genetics by becoming the first Junior Sprinter to crack the 20 second barrier. 2004 and 2005, he had some rough moments, but was able to bounce back in 2006 and 2007 with a new national record in the 200m with a time 19.75....was anyone really surprised by his record run in the 200m? Nope!!!
NOW WE ARE IN 2008!!! Is it really a surprise that a man that can run 19.75 can run 10.03 in the 100m? No not really, because his coach trained him right and made sure that every aspect of sprinting was placed into his training. BUT after only running 5 100m dashes in his entire life, this thing known as "The Lightning Bolt" goes out and runs the 1st and 3rd fastest time in the history of mankind!!! WHAT ON EARTH??? I'm not gonna lie, that was damn good run by Bolt, I mean, he has already achieved something that the past great ones could not accomplish. He stepped into a pretty great field with the defending world champion Tyson Gay (whats good my dude) right next to him and left his mark on the sport of track and field. Now lets see if he can duplicate this amazing feat at the Games....my money is on Tyson and Coach Brauman.
Justin Gatlin: Oh Justin, Justin, Justin. I remember watching you at the 2001 NCAA meet and watched you light the track on fire. I knew you was a star in the making. I remember when you won your first major pro title, it was the indoor 60m world title....I remember the ups and downs of that season, but you still manage to run under 10 second that year.....I remember your shining moment in 2004 in Athens, hell I still watch that race to this very day like it was the first time I've ever seen it. You proved that you was the ultimate championship performer, you beat out the (depending on who you ask) the greatest 100m sprinter of all time....2005, in my eyes, your greatest run was your 200m world championship run. Wallace Spearmon, Tyson Gay, John Capel, and Usain Bolt..these men in this race should have blown your butt out of the water, three of them have been dropping 19 point like animals in the zoo take dumps, and you took your game to another level and won the 200m on top of winning the 100m earlier in that week, becoming the second man to ever do the 100m/200m double at the world championships. Then the year you wish you could of skipped over came around and your life as you know it was turned upside down. You knew you wasn't supposed to run at the U.S. championships but you ran away..why? Why or how did you allow this to happen to yourself??? You are the same kid I saw at the SEC meet damn near win the team title all by yourself..You won 4 outta 5 events you was in, hell you damn near won the hurdles...why? Why Trevor Graham as your coach...why? Why would the man that was dubbed the Next Great One as a sophmore in college do something to destroy that career...why??? Honestly, I wanted to see Gatlin back after two years, but you know what? The IAAF put that great career that many of us enjoyed watching on ice for another 2 years. Let this be a lession to those that wanna take the easy way to fame and remember this saying...."Men lie, women lie, but the piss test don't!!"
I'm off, gotta watch this Great Southwest meet in morning..oh yeah, the Retro Jordan 6 is coming out tomorrow, so those that know me know one way or the other, they will be on my feet..LOL!!!! I'll holla!!!!
Hi Brianna 
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Man...Where is Travis when you need him???
Well folks, my season has been in a up and down state ever since I got hurt back in February. As soon of you all know, I had a nasty knee injury that to this very day I still don't know how it came about...thats the story of my running life. Anyway, that set me back big time, I couldn't compete at the US Indoor Meet due to the injury and deep down in my soul, I knew I could of made that team, my lil homeboy Mike who won it knew I could of made that team, but as we all know, sh*t happens for a reason, so I guess I shouldn't be second guessing the situation. I do know that if probably the greatest athletic trainer I've ever been around was where I am living at now, my butt would of been able to compete....Man, where is Travis when you need him???
The knee is still bothering me, but not as much as it was previously. I was able train at full speed after a month of being "careful"...I gotta start listening to my body, because for some odd reason, my pride and my ego sometimes won't allow me too, but I'm learning the hard way as usual....Man, where is Travis when you need him??? He was able to talk sense into me as well as getting my head together when I was gun shy to go out there and run or train. He was the best trainer my old school ever had...PERIOD!!! If we walked into the training and said "Yo Trav, my leg is faded" He knew what that meant, and him and RJ would go to work non stop even on Sundays to make sure we was getting taking care of, now thats trainer, thats a great person to have in the Athletic Training Program, a major university would be a damn fool not to hire him and make him the full time boss of Olympic Sports Athletic Training, and thats real!!!
So anyway, now we fast forward to the Texas Relays. I'm warming up, all is feeling well, Tyson, J.J. Johnson, Rae Edwards and myself is just getting ready to run anchor, we chatting it up, laughing, looking at the women in stands..lol!!! Ya know, just enjoying the meet within itself. So my team is in lane 8 and the gun goes off. First two leg especially my dude Tyree Gailes formerly of Texas Tech rolled out for our team, he did his thing on lead off. so we in the mix, not deep in the mix as Wallace Spearmon just destroyed the backstretch as well as Leroy Dixon. Mike Rodgers killed Aries Merritt on third leg but Merritt did his thing and I can't front on that, its just that Mike did the damn thing alot better..LMAO!!! So my team was like in 4th or 5th place, all I know was I was going to catch atleast one person cause I was feeling it. You know that feeling your legs get after a great warm-up? Yeah I knew it was on! So as my third leg hit the mark, I take off. I get the stick and not even 5 meters out of the zone, I strain my groin muscle!!! Are you friggin kidding me???? Man I was laying on the track in disbelief, I could not believe this sh*t just happened!!! There was no sign of a injury prior to me warming up, no problem in practice...NOTHING AT ALL!!! It just came outta nowhere!!! So now its back to square one, back to rehabbing another injury, back to sitting here thinking "why me?" I mean, all I want is one season without a injury, thats all I want!!! I need that intense rehab well no one will let me take it easy...Man, where is Travis when you need him???
Well, as of right now, Mt. Sac is out of the picture..as of now! I got a meet at Cal the week of Penn and Drake (I gotta do me and not worry about the relay thing for the moment) last season, it seemed to be a nice meet with Derrick Atkins running 9.98 and my dudes Jeff Laynes and Jason Heard going 10.1, plus they run prelims and finals, so I think that will be a good fit for me, besides, UNM is going and I don't have to pay..LMAO!!! j/k Anywhoo, wish me luck in my rehab folks.
Shantia you a fool too, anytime I need a laugh, child you be coming throught!!! Hi Brianna..lol!! Rebecca..YESS!!!!! and you know what I'm talking about too..lol!!!
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Blah, Blah....Rant, Rant!!!!
I'm touch on a few things and get some things off my chest so bear with me!
Sprinter vs. Distance Runner: Thanks Brianna, you got me really thinking about this as I would always go toe to toe with distance runners while I was in college, not so much know tho cause I know more. I remember a distance runner my Junior year came out his mouth and called the sprinters lasy, cocky, and full of hot air. He also said that we walk around like we the greatest thing god put in this sport, not to mention, he also said that our swagger was a cover up cause we didn't believe that we was that good, so we try to act like we we're!!! WHAT!!!!!!!
Ok so my response was....and I remember this like it was yesterday....I said to him, "First off, we do more than you at a meet (both relays and if its conference, two open races) let me see you a 10k then come back and give us a leg on the 4x400 or go over the long jump pit score points in that event....let me see you run rounds, you only got one race to run in....let me see you run in 80 degree temperture without catching a heat stroke!" I contunied, "We the first ones at the track and the last ones to leave...we lift, yall don't....we go to nationals, yall don't....we scored most of the points, and yall did nothing but complain that it was to hot to perform, so that's why you stopped in the middle of the race!" To end it all without him runing back to the coaches saying that the sprinters was picking on him, I ended the argument on this note..."How the hell can yall run all year, have a cross country season, have almost two months to prepare for the indoor season, and NOT BE IN SHAPE TO COMPETE IN THE FIRST THREE INDOOR MEETS???" He gave me this look, and all he could say was "well my GPA is higher than yours!" LMAO!!! Ok he had me there, but I still had a very high GPA..LOL!!!
My point was this to him, every aspect, every part of track and field is hard, everyone trains hard to the best of their abilities, I don't train any harder than the field eventers, they don't train any harder than the distance runners, so for you to come out your mouth and say that one side of the team doesn't work as hard as the other side of the program and your not around us on a regular basis is wrong and pure BS!!! We are teammates and that type of BS is not needed up in here, cause when its all said and done, if we win Big 12's, no one is going to say, "oh they won because this side of the team ran more or trained harder than the other side", they gonna say " they won as a complete team!" I think I made my point very clear!
The Death of the Dual Meet: You all wanna know why I think the dual meet system is dead??? 12.6 or is it .3??? lol!! Anyway, from what I see and from I've reseached so far, back in the day when the dual meet was the backbone meet for most programs, the men's team had a lot of athletic aid. Men teams was able to at least be competitive across the board in most of the events, so that made the Dual Meets appealling to the fan and the masses. Now, seeing that the Men's programs only have 12 scholarshps (not even gonna go there) the dual meets are not as exciting anymore...picture a LSU - Oregon Dual Meet!!!! LSU destroys Oregon in all sprint/jumps events, and Oregon just manhandles LSU from the 800m up and plus field events!!! No balance! So to me, the Dual Meet wouldn't be fun for the fan nor the athletes. If we as fans and major track junkies want the Dual Meets back, the NCAA or whoever is in charge got to increase the number of scholarships on the men's side...its a simple fix! Well, to me atleast! Just my opinion.
The Regional Meet and why it should be thrown on a busy highway and ran over by the biggest truck man ever created: The whole system is flawed..PERIOD!!! Its not fair to the athletes in my opinion...well not to the top athletes aleast...Yeah, yeah I know why it was put in place, in order to give the smaller schools with a lighter travel budgets a fighting chance to compete for a spot at the NCAA Meet...YAWN!!!! I'm sorry but please explain to me how this system helps the smaller schools or the athlete coming from the smaller budget schools???? Look, we all know that the sprinter from Northwest Maine State University is not going to beat the "Heat Seeking Missle Destroyer" known as Walter Dix in the 100m or 200m...sorry..NOT HAPPENING!!! We all know that the "Chainsaw with the broken switch" known as Baylor's 4x400 is not going to lose to a Southwest Alaska State team! So why on earth are these top teams and individuals competing at a meet that pretty much if they don't get hurt, is going to make it out of the region anyway???
You wanna make it fair to all? Here's a great idea for you all. Bring back the old standard, at the same time, keep the regional standard. Make a NCAA auto standard, so if a individual or relays team hit this mark, they now have a option to skip the Regional meet and go to Nationals or compete in the regional meet. They say its all about numbers right? Well this will allow those teams that don't stand a chance against the Texas A&M's, LSU's etc. a more fair of a chance to make it to NC's. It also gives the schools that are not as deep as a Baylor a chance to rest injured athletes instead of running them...now thats only if they hit the NCAA auto mark. The conference meets takes alot out of the runners, and for them to get thrown back into the fire like a regional meet just isn't fair...and I don't wanna here "well high scholers do it all the time" Well when we was in high school, we could run full speed with a hamstring pulls and didn't care..LOL, I mean who really got tired in high school??? LOL!!!
Thats all folks, next I'm a touch on why track and field is dying in the USA...and it has nothing to do with runners being doped up on that "Ben Johnson"!!!
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Man, where should I begin?
Ok so let me catch yall up to speed on the life and times of yours truly. February 1st and 2nd, Im in Nebraska for their big Invite meet and all is good, no flight delays, no bad weather, nothing but positive energy right? Ha! remember this is my life, so you know something crazy had to happen. On Friday, they held the prelims of the 60m, I open up 6.72, I made a few mistakes that was pointed out to me by some of my people, so I now know what had to be done come Saturday. Later that night, I noticed had this funny feeling in my right knee, didn't feel like much so I blew off. So now its Saturday and its the day of the 60m finals. I had no signs of pain of any sort, so I begin to warm up and I felt great, I knew I was going to post a decent time and also work on being aggressive in a one race final, to make a long track story short, I got second to Ivory Williams (whats good boy) 6.65 to 6.68! Pretty successful trip you would think right? WRONG!!!! So later that night Im out with my people and I started to notice that my right knee is like hurting really bad. My range of motion was very limited to say the least, I had no idea whats was wrong with me. So now its Sunday and I'm heading back to Albuquerque and on Monday I had my trainers look at it and they are lost as well, now if this isnt weird I don't know what is! It had to be some crazy freak accident! So now I gotta fly to New York City (home town) to run at the New Balance Games, but things isnt feeling right at all, all week, so my practice was limited to lifting and pool workouts. So now Im in New York staying at my parents house (scared my mother and father half to death cuz they didnt know I was coming home lol) and my knee is still feeling iffy. So Friday comes around and I guess it was the adrenaline rush and being caught up in the moment, my knee started to feel alot better.....so we think! Im warming up and all is well. Now I know I could posted a sick time, cause I was in that type of mind state, plus Im home too, so that spelled trouble for those in my race. Now we in the blocks and I feel ok, gun goes off and Im cruising...LITERALLY! So I say to myself, "ok, hit it" as soon as I do, my knee popped halfway in the race and I had to shut it off completely. All I could say is why me? why now? why this season? damn can I stay healthy for one full year? So I go get a x-ray and MRI and they didnt see any damage in the knee....thank god! But, I got some contusion(spell check) on the outside part of my knee and they said I should be ready to go in a few weeks, so that meant no Tyson nor USA Indoors for me. If I wasnt as strong in the head as I am, I think I would of quit, but I'm not built that way in the least bit. God has his plan and his plan for me was to not run at the national meet this past weekend, and as much as it hurted to watch a final go off that I knew damn well I would of been in, the best thing for me was to sit in them stand and not risk further injury...there is always next season, and right now, my focus is on this small town in the State of Oregon at the end of June, Im not paying all that money only to run one time! Oh hell no! I plan on running 4 races that weekend, so that got to be the big picture here. Shout out to my girl Lolo doing her thing this weekend, handle business girl! Shout out to Kellie Wells as well, you did your thing too girl, and next time, buy your own drink..lol! Shout out to Brianna Glenn, that might of been the funniest trip from the airport to a hotel ever! I never seen someone so scared of snow like ol girl was..Lmao! You handled yours this weekend and it was nice being able to talk to you...FINALLY!!! Lol! Big ups to my lil homie Mike for winning that 60m, remember what I told you at that party kid, I got your back son! Hold it down in Spain in two weeks. Mark, remember...zipper sex..LMAO!!!!!! Aight peoples, outdoor season is here and its time to re-focus, I'll holla! Oh Yeah, I almost got shot in a night club out there in Boston...YEP! I'll touch on that in my next blog cause this flight attendant is getting on my last nerve. I love my t-mobile dash!
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This week
So I got my next meet this Friday and Saturday in Lincoln, NE, and I'm really looking foward to it. Its a Friday, and Saturday meet and it duplicates the USA Indoor Meet with one round on Friday and one round the next day, even tho Nationals will have two rounds on Saturday, it give me the feel that every race is a one race final and with that, it will make me run HARD!!! I got this problem with opening up fast in my first round race, but we been working on some things in order to knock that non-sense out, so I hoping for a good performance there.
The meet will also allow me to see some friends that I miss a whole lot. Going up there will also allow me to see the guys and ladies I use to work with at my old school, its gonna be a good time and I'm looking forward to seeing them run. Shout out to the new school record holder in the indoor 800m run, can't wait to see you run in person and meet you!!!
So I had practice today on a Sunday...YES ON A SUNDAY!!! And it went pretty well. Me and my training pratner was going at it in the starts..lol!!! We some blocks with the auto timer/touch pad machine and thats when things got heated..lol!!! We got this time sheet from the UCLA Sprint Coach Tony Veney(sorry if I spelled your name wrong) it has target times, block start times and fly sprinting times on it. Basically, for example, if you are doing starts from the blocks and you come thru the 30m mark at lets say a time between 3.78 to 3.87, you are pretty much in the 60m time range between 6.58 - 6.67, I already ran 6.67 so far this season, with a horrible start, and today I was coming thru at 3.84, 3.87, 3.91 this was my first one( I was trying to loosing up) and one of the starts was like in the mid 3.8's. So now my dude was talking noise cause thats what he and I do in order to get amped up seeing that it was cold as hell out there, he goes and he was in the very low 3.9's lol, but he's not a 100m sprinter(even tho he tries to convince us he is..lol) so his starts isn't as explosive as mine, but put his 20.19w 200m 45.94 400m running butt on them turns, and its a rap!!! We influence one another, when one is tired and don't feel like going, the other motivates and vise versa. Its great to have a training partner like him. Every training partner I've had made me better, in recent times...James Lopes, Jared Lewis and the rest of the crew back at school made me better, my JUCO and University teammates made me the fighter that I am, and I thank you all, cause I wouldn't be here without you all and thats real!!!!
So after the starts, we had some speed endurance work......lets just say we wore each other out something crazy lol!!!! Lets just say we was trying to break the sound barrier...lol!!! But thats what we gotta do in order to achieve the ultimate goal, and we all know what that is....Eugene, OR, and then to this City in China.
Well thats all for now, I'll keep you all posted while at the meet if Sony sends my damn labtop back this week!!! I hate their customer service! I sent that thing back a month ago, and now they talking about "oh it will be there in four business days" AIGHT, it better be woman!!! lol
Brianna, don't trip girl, you knocking the rust off and you did fine...like the uniform too! LMAO!!! SEXXXXXXXYYYYYYY!!! Haha! Oh wait, I don't wanna be on your "text" hit list before we get a chance to talk face to face...lol!!!! And I still got that water balloon for your hair too girl if you front up on me!!! lol
Shantia, let it rip this week at your meet child, don't hold back!
Starr, you can try, I don't know how sucessful you gonna be in your attempt, but you can try...LOL!!!!!
Later folks!
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6.67 and 8.11
Well another week of competition has came and gone, and I'm couldn't be anymore happier than I am now for myself and my girl Shantia. As most of you know, she is the 2007 NCAA 60m hurdle champion, she was is one of college best athletes, as well as one of the USA's top runners. Last season me and her became real cool, we will talk sometimes, but mostly text (we are text message lovers..lol) before and after our competitions. During the off season, we would just text each other like all day and night, laughing at every and anything, and when I would travel to Atlanta, we would kick it and just bug out, its good to have someone like that in your world, thats my peeps right there  !!!
She had her first race of the year at Clemson this weekend, she was all nervous and what not, but I would do my part as her friend and find ways to lift her confidence and just being another positive person in her circle. Many don't know, but she's been thru alot these last few months with a very serious injury that pretty much killed her outdoor season in 2007 and had her on the sidelines for a minute, but for her to come back the way she did and to open up at 8.11 in the hurdles is something next to amazing. I'm so happy for her...YOU GO GURL!!! LOL!!!
As for yours truly, I ran in Flagstaff this weekend..hehehe!! I must say, this mountain region is very relaxing. Beautiful scene all around, nice people, I really like it in this part of the U.S. Anyway, it was a low key meet with a few teams there, but good enough to get a good race in. In the prelims, I pretty must pulled a Asafa Powell and just shut it off like 6 to 9 meters out. Some of my friends was like "why didn't you run thru the line?" or "why you shut it off 10m out?" Well honestly, I have no clue why I did that, but I guess it was due to the fact that I had another round and I also had the race in hand, so no need to try to show out in the opening rounds.
So in the finals, I was a lil nervous (actually, I'm always nervous in any race) the Asian kid from Arizona was looking good in his warm ups and in his opening round. There was a few others that was looking like they were ready to make some noise as well. As we was called to the blocks, the guy in lane 3 raised his hand cause he wasn't feeling right in his blocks, and for some odd reason, the starter just went off on him....FOR WHAT??? The starter talking about "your holding up the meet, what do you think this is?" First off Mr. Starter Man, the isn't about you, its about the runners, and if he wants to raise his hand in order to adjust his blocks, SO WHAT!!! I think that was very unprofessional of him, and if he got somewhere he needs to be, then don't sign up to do the meet then!!!! He came at me crazy in the prelims as well, and those that know me know I put him in his place real quick! Anyway, as we got ready to run, this dude in the stands was talking mess to me....Yeah there were women all around his area, so he felt the need to show out in front of them. So I played it off like I didn't see nor heard him, but I did. See I had on these Nike shades that you could change out the lense from a outdoor lense, to a inside lense. So he was like "lane 4, there is no sun inside the building, take the glasses off, your not that fast!!!" Oh really??? Ok so, now the race is about to go off, we are in the blocks, I hear "set" and then the gun goes off. My start might of been the worse today...MAN!!! The first 5 meters was ugly! No real dig, no real power being pushed into the track, I don't know what was going on, but after 5 meters, it was pretty much a rap. I got to 30 meters and just started to lift, drive and pull away. After like 2 minutes, the time came up and it was 6.67!! I was like whoa!!!! I didn't expect that type of time due to the poor start, but I am very happy with that result.
So as I'm going back to get my stuff at the starting line, I look up into the stands to find the dude who wanted to be Chris Tucker for the day, and yes I clowned him!!! I asked him "do you want my autograph and my shades???" So them girls he was trying to impress so much and so hard pretty much turned around and started laughing in his face, and when I say they was LOUD...THEY WERE LOUD!!!!!! LMAO!!!! I know he felt low, I would of went in on him a lil more but I was like nah, he might get mad..lmao!!!
Anyway, thats all for now, all those athletes that are competing this season with a goal in mind, I wish you all the best of luck. Shout out to my girl Sani Roseby, she won the 60m up there today. Brianna, your alma mater was there and you wasn't!!! 
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Knocking off the rust
Well after I got hurt last April running the 200m against Mr. Spearmon, I lost alot of training time and fitness. Me and my dude J-Lew got a saying "only two things can happen in a race like this, either we gonna run really fast or someone is about to get hurt running really fast". Well guess who got hurt? I manage to run 20.99 late in the summer like at the end of July overseas at a small meet. I was ready to really do something big last season before that injury hit, oh well things happen for a reason. I played it safe this summer after I came back and didn't do much other than lift...and lift...and lift some more! I started my training later than usual just so I could heal up and not have any lingering aches and pains once I start to go full speed ahead.
Moving along, I had my first race in which I had minor brain lapse, not to mention, I wasn't really feeling the track surface as it was like running on cotton candy. Anyway, I though we had two rounds and so I took my opening race (so I though it was a opening round) and only ran like 6.79 or something like that, then come to find out, there was only two heats and no finals...WHAT???? So I ended getting second overall, which doesn't bother me, but what was most important is that I knocked the rust off and got my first race jitters out the way. I usually open up in my first race which is usually a prelim race around 6.7 high to 6.80, and then when the finals comes around, I drop something nasty like 6.6 something, so I will be ready for my next meet which will be up in Flagstaff, AZ....And I'm not gonna be in a good mood niether, so that means TROUBLE...lol
As for practice today, it was a easy day, nothing to exciting to write about. It was nice out, so we took advantage of the weather....never thought I would see the day that I thought 48 degrees was a nice day for sprinters to be outside..lol
Words to Shantia, remember what we spoke about girl. All you see in front of you is the finish line all you can worry about is the lane you are in. You control your own fate, no one else but you. I got your back Coco..lol
Ms. Glenn, so are we gonna be friends, or am I gonna get the stink face treatment from you again? lol...but I wish you all the luck in the world this season, you got yourself another fan that will be rooting for you this year....and you better be rooting for me too! lol
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Today, today!!!!!
Well today was a good day, I can't complain. Practice was pretty intresting today. We had some girls run very well today in there "Welcome Back to Practice" workout. We was very pleased with what they did, they now know that this is serious business and the season starts next week for them, so there's no time to slack off during the break. As for the guys, most of them stayed at school during the break and continued to work their tails off, all that did was show the coaching staff that they are about their business and that they wanna suceed this season, losing is a bad habit thats hard to break, well for these young men and women, we don't have to worry about them picking up that horrible habit.
But as usual, there's always one in the group that gotta be that odd ball and not workout during the break, well he got exposed today...BAD!!!! Never seen anyone in my life even with a stomach flu throw up 6 TIMES IN ONE WORKOUT!!! Oh my, my, my!!! Oh he heard it from me and the other coaches afterwards, I guess he thought it was a game when I told him to workout and be back on time..BUT NOOOOOO!!!! He wanted to test the Devil Coach, well he did, and we set his butt on fire today and I bet he won't slack again!
As for me and my training partner, we had a good workout today....even tho it was in the low to high 30's today, it was very productive. Due to use competing this weekend, we cut back on the intervals. He had 4x300 and I had 4x250. He went 38 three times and 39 flat on the last one, to me thats pretty good considering in was windy and cold as heck out there...(memo to the University, WE WANT OUR INDOOR TRACK BACK ASAP) As for me, I went 32.5 31.3, 29.8, 29.4 all in training flat....I guess I'm in shape..haha! I gotta admit it tho, Leo was running his butt off in those 300m split drops runs, we was working on his last 200m and he was in the 25 lows and he hit 24 high on two of them, which is great. I wanna see him do very well this season, cause he works hard...VERY WORK!!! We push each other very hard, similar to how we would push each other as JUCO teammates years ago. Its gonna be a intresting season, wish us well yall!!!!
Brianna, I remember when we was at outdoor nationals back in 2005 at Mo's afterparty and I tried to speak to you and you blew me off like a was a scrub riding shotgun in my friend's car...I was like "oh hell no" I mean I know I'm top tier star in the game, but geez! LOL!!! And you did it to me a few years earlier when you came to the last chance meet in Ames, Ia (Iowa State) You gonna hug me when you see me girl...hug me tight too!!! lol
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Training above sea level...waaay above it!!!
Well as most of my close people know, I moved outta the Midwest this October (those that knows me know why) and headed to the great Southwest, and I tell it was a change...in more ways than one. As soon as I got here and settled in on that Sunday, I started my fall training. The first week was just alot of shake out stuff, drills, and weights, now the following week is when all hell done broke loose.
I knew where I was living was above sea level, but good lawd!!! My first workout was some 100's about 10 of them, after the fifth one, I would of swore someone had put my lungs in the figure four leg lock...lol! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't catch my breath, the 100's felt like 400m repeats, it was just bad all around. I kid you all not, normally, it would take me about a month to get in shape...NOPE NOT DOWN HERE, I swear to the high heavens it took me about 7 weeks to get right, its a different monster up here, now I see why distance runners love it so much, many say that sprinters don't really see any major improvements due to training in altitude, well hopefully, I can prove that theory wrong this season, cause I'm hittting times that I never really hit this early in my training program before.
I had a good workout session today, did some sled pulls, four of them. Did some blocks with the auto timer touch pad. Using that timing system makes the starts more intense, cause you're pretty much saying to yourself "ok I wanna hit 3.8, I wanna hit this 3.7 high" so pretty much you have something to shoot for, rather than putting out cones and running to the them. My first 30m is getting much better, I'm working on much more technical stuff and using more power thru my drive phase. My block clearance is right where I need it, and to go back to my drive phase, its getting much better, I can actually hold the position more naturally and without thinking about actually staying in the "drive/power position", so I feel good about my block workout today. After the blocks, I did 4x100m inside the football practice arena, normally I would do 6, but I worked out Sunday, and I got 3x250's tomorrow so we only did 4 and not to mention, I was going pretty fast running in my training flats. On the field turf, I was running high 11 second sprints, mostly working on form, foot strike, and rotation, too many people worry about running fast, instead of running right, if you learn how to run right, you are going to run fast, its that simple, doesn't take a rocket scientist that looks like Napolean Dynamite to understand or figure that out. Word to you coaches, learn how to coach, just don't focus on recruiting ready made talent to where your job will be "easier".
Anyway, thats all for now, take care and I will get you all updated with the wonderful world known as my upside down athletic life.
P.S. Ms. Brianna Glenn, if we are at a meet together again, and you act like you can't speak to me, I'm a throw a balloon filled with hot water at you and frizz your hair up...LMAO!!! But you still fine tho!
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New week, same stuff, different place, but its still fun!!!!
Now that the indoor season is here, practice is actually fun again. I will be the first person to tell you that most sprinters are some lasy so and so's...I hate Tuesday and Friday workouts, especially repeat 200's that I think my college coach invented..lol!!! And don't do that workout with 400m runners aka the fools that don't know the menaing of pace!!! J GRAHAM, J-LEW, BIG E, AND TONE!!! I still got love for yall, but that workout last year was outta control, and I'm mad that you all almost broke my soul..LMAO!!!
Anyway, I think I'm in very good shape, I've been hitting times in workouts that made me question the start and stop watch skills of my dude that times me..lol, but its a good step in the right direction. An example of some of the times I've hit in training flats: I did a 350m ladder workout (thanks Coach Lynn, now I really hate 350's lol) This was back in October.
350m - 44.6
300m - 37.6
250m - 31.9
2x200m 25.5 and 24.5 all with 8 minutes rest between each one (I hate you Leo lol)
Jesus Lawd!!! I saw my life flash in front of my eyes, and when I tell you all that I was crippled for about 30 minutes with no lower body movement what so ever.....I mean it! I couldn't feel my toes, I developed gas..just farting non stop...LMAO!!! Man it was bad, but I'm living you know? This is what the Olympic year does to a person, it pushes you to limits that you didn't think you could go too, it makes you stronger mentally, so in all, if you really wanna be in Oregon at the end of June, you better get your mind right, beardown (Hi Brianna Glenn lol) and take it to the unknown limits, cause there is no roof on detrimination and goal setting. Take care folks, next I will talk about my near death experiences training on Mars aka Altitude 5335ft above Earth! lol
Quote of the day:
"See, this is a razor blade situation" - Shantia Moss aka Cheeks Almighty...LMAO!!!
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Finally
I finally have the chance to write a blog and keep people updated with my progess as runner. This is the Olympic Year and everyone is on their A Game..(hopefully, thats all they are on..lol) Anyway, I'm really looking for to this season, god only knows whats going to happen, I just hope its all positive. I'm also looking forward to seeing what some of the newly elite runners will do this year, like Demi Omole(punk lol) Mike Rodgers, Shantia Moss (defending NCAA 60m hurdle Champ) Chris Gills, and a host of others. I wish everyone I know that is running this season all the luck and good health in the world this season.
Words of the Day,
Anyone that has said, two ugly people can make a cute kid done lied to Jimmy Walker's mom and Dad!!! LOL
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