G's Blog: Start of the Outdoor Track Season

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Start of the Outdoor Track Season

Outdoor season has finally started and we were able to have our meet at Tad Gormley. It went well and we had great weather. Tulane won the 4x1 and my friend Koplan won the 400 with a personal record time of 48.6. We had spring break that week and I went to Baton Rouge for the weekend. I had a good time visiting some friends and went to the LSU-Cal St, Fullerton game, which was a lot of fun. I went to Rice on Tuesday to compete in my first decathlon of the season. Drove down there with my coach and was excited about competing. My mom came to watch on Wednesday, which was really great of her to make the trip. I did well in the long jump and had a good first 400m of the season. Thursday my brother came to watch me compete and the first event was the 110 hurdles. After the race I noticed I had cut my knee. I’m not sure which hurdle did it, but man I need to work on my technique. I thought I would be able to just get it cleaned up and go back to competing. The trainer said that I needed to get stitches so I was finished competing for the day. Luckily the hospital was across the street but it took forever to get checked out and finally get my knee stitched up. I ended up with seven stitches and hopefully I will be back running shortly. The best part about the day was hanging out with my little brother so maybe God was just giving me some time with him. This week I have a couple of tests and then we have a meet at LSU. I’d love to compete at the meet but only time will tell…