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, [...]

I made my second trip to Rio de Janeiro last week, this time for the Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo which was an IAAF World Challenge competition. My first time to Rio was 4 years ago for the Pan American Games and considering the fact that I didn’t even make the finals back then, I [...]

My first trip to Jamaica was long overdue and probably a bit too short to actually enjoy it like you’re supposed to. This was a business trip though. After some uncertainty about whether or not I would be competing at the meet at all, I received my flight itinerary a little over two hours from [...]

I’ve still got a couple weeks left on my recovery/active rest cycle before I begin my preparations for 2011 (and indirectly for 2012 too) but in this time I’ve been able to think back on my 2010 season.  If you’d asked me about the season after my last meet in Brussels I likely would have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]