I did mention that I would be blogging a bit more frequently and I meant it. This past weekend I competed at George Mason’s Last Chance competition in an attempt to get a quality training session in. Considering the fact that my training group no longer makes use of George Mason’s indoor facility, the few [...]

We’re full speed ahead to London now and I’m working hard to ensure that all of my weaknesses are addressed even before the outdoor season begins for me on April 14th. Training has already shifted gears though and it feels good because outdoor track and field is when it’s time to really let things rip [...]

2012 is finally here… I keep saying that I need to blog on a more frequent and more consistent basis, and I really do mean it when I say it; let’s see if I can actually get the ball rolling in 2012 though. In any case, for this first blog post of 2012 I just [...]

239 Days to Go. That’s what the countdown on the London 2012 website reads now and although it seems like the Games of the XXX Olympiad are right around the corner, I have to fight back my anxiety. I’m sure other athletes preparing for next summer are doing the same thing because although the utmost [...]

Things are starting to come together a bit more following last week’s technique change. Little by little though. I set an indoor personal best yesterday and felt relatively comfortable doing it. Still, by now you know that indoors doesn’t excite me too much except that I appreciate being able to “train” in a competition atmosphere [...]

Happy New Year y’all! I’m not big on New Years resolutions and I’m not trying to “change” so much as I’m looking to improve. I make it a point to look forward and plan my future/set new goals far more than I bask in retrospect. Of course, the past can be beneficial in shaping the [...]

My World Indoor Championships experience was certainly a disappointment, but by no means a waste. I managed to only jump 16.30m, which is horrible as far as jumping performances go, and still I took enough away from the meet to make it an overall worthwhile competition. Since this is my 2nd World Championships experience, I [...]

So the meet I had in France this past Friday went alright…I suppose. I set an indoor personal best of 16.64m and came in 4th behind three jumpers who went 17 meters (one of whom was Christian Olsson, the indoor world record holder in the event). As you can imagine, I had higher aspirations for [...]

The indoor season is quickly coming to an end with the World Championships just over a week away at this point. This has been the most extensive indoor season that I’ve had since about 2005, and that’s because the plan all along was to build on things from meet to meet. I definitely think I’ve [...]

I’m going to pencil my most recent competitive outing in the “personal victory” column. As with my other competitions this indoor season, it was definitely a learning experience but at least the result was a bit easier to swallow than the rest have been. I still need a ton of work, and all of that [...]