10 Keys to Being a Good Pace Maker / RabbitOn Sunday I am the pace setter for the 800m at the Prefontaine Classic. The field is arguably one of the best group of 800m runners ever assembled on US soil. Below are my 10 Keys to Pacing a Ridiculous 800m F...

Last weekend I was fortunate enough to spend the weekend in the Carribbean in Ponce (pronounced Ponse-say) in Puerto Rico. The meet hotel was a Hilton resort, golf course, and casino, definitely a vacation destination hotel. It was sort of out by itsel...

This week I have a more legitamate excuse for not writing a blog on, say, Monday. The fact is that I actually did write a blog on Monday and I was about to add one more link to it and press submit when my Firefox browser crashed and I lost it. This tim...

I am definately a week late in updating my blog with a recap of last Saturday's Penn Relays. Each time I thought about writing this over the past week something else entered my mind. Here is my list of 5 reasons it took me 9 days to write a blog:1. I g...

This past week has been a little bit rough for me training-wise. It
began last Saturday at the Arizona State invitational where I ran the
400m and anchored the 4x400m relay. I guess actually it started earlier
than that. In the 3 weeks leading up to...

After taking a few days off from USA Indoor Nationals at the end of February I came down here to Tucson, Arizona with most of the rest of the Oregon Track Club Elite for a 5 week stint of spring training camp. I am living in an exteneded living apartme...

The Good News: This weekend I placed third in the 800m at the US Indoor National Championships. It was my first time making a final at a US meet and the first time, I think, in any final since NCAA's in 2006. It is also the highest I have finished at a...

I have now ran I don't know how many races at the 800m distance over the past 3 years, and still I seem to learn so much with every race. Training for the 800 is a much easier process than actuall racing. In training, there is always a coach there to t...

2/2/2009

Well, it's a new season, and frankly, it's a new me this year. When I decided to turn professional ater my career at Oregon was over, I made a two year commitment to myself to take a shot at the 800m and at the 2008 Olympics. I made no promi...

After what I think was a sucessful season this past year, I have been not doing anything physical the past 2 weeks since I returned from Europe. The time off has been really nice and relaxing, well for the first week. The last week I have had alot of i...