I arrived in Paris early on Sunday morning and after spending just one night in my new home at L’Institut National du Sport, de l’Expertise et de la Performance (INSEP), I hit the road and hopped on a train from Paris to Rouen. Tuesday night I competed at the Meeting International de Sotteville les Rouen jumping [...]

May was an amazingly busy month for me as far as competition is concerned, probably my busiest to date. I competed 4 times, in 4 different countries within a little less than 3 weeks. I started the month competing in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, bounced to Kingston, Jamaica then to Ponce, Puerto Rico and finally to Shanghai, [...]

The World Championships are literally around the corner at this point and I can’t wait. I’m as ready as I’ve ever been and will be even more prepared come the qualifying round. Since my last blog post, I took the New York State bar exam up in Albany, NY which was far from fun as [...]

Perhaps this post is a bit overdue since I competed several days ago now, but better late than never. For starters, my experience in Brussels was amazing. That’s pretty tough to believe considering that if you check the results there’s a nice little “NM” next to my name for “No Mark.” Although I felt as [...]

I had my last “workout” workout of the year yesterday afternoon in Belgium. I say “workout” workout because my coach already let me know that I’ll still be working out a bit once I get back to the States, in spite of the fact that tomorrow is my last meet for 2010. He said that [...]

Since my last time out down in Puerto Rico a couple weeks ago I’ve been training hard for what is shaping up to be my season finale at the Diamond League final in Brussels, Belgium on August 27th. Don’t get me wrong, if other opportunities present themselves while I’m overseas I’ll definitely consider competing at [...]

I did say in my last post that I would eventually share some of the things I learned while hopping around from meet to meet in Europe earlier this month. In Gateshead I was fortunate enough to be roomed with one of my competitors. Yes; I said “fortunate.” Usually this would slightly annoy me, but [...]

Wow! That’s about how I feel after getting back to Virginia after my first true tour on the European track circuit; but not the sort of “wow” you might expect. For all the glitz and glamor that many outside the track and field world think goes with being on the circuit, there’s a WHOLE lot more grit [...]

So my Diamond League baptism came and went and it certainly wasn’t what I was looking for. Needless to say, I still genuinely enjoyed the experience, the competition and the fact that my parents, coach and friends were finally able to make it to a meet. The competition on the other hand was pretty disappointing. [...]

It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post but considering that I’ve got a bit more free time thanks to my graduating last month I’ll try and blog a bit more regularly. In any case, this weekend’s Adidas Grand Prix will only be my 3rd meet of the season but it’ll also be [...]