University of Washington Open

This past week I found myself in Seattle at the UW indoor open with the university track and field team. We departed Edmonton Friday afternoon aboard a propeller plane rather than a conventional jet, something I've never experienced before and I must say it was pretty cool.

 Rocky Peaks

We did a prep session on their brand new outdoor track Saturday, which is situated right beside the water. An amazing training facility. 

My roommate(Adrian Christ, yellow shirt) and I were both selected to run the mile on Sunday. Within the 4ish minutes it requires to run the race, there are countless decisions to be made, gaps to fill, surges to defend and to cap it off, determining the exact moment to execute your finishing move.  Individually we both ran tactical sound races, a product of studying the the NCAA session from the afternoon before. Adrian ran 4:22 and I was lucky enough to find myself in a faster heat, which pushed me to a 4:18

Joe Douglas

``Your famous!`` 

Lopez Lomong

2008 USA Olympic Flag Bearer 

Here`s a video  made by Isaac Tyler, a high jumper on the team and my older brother`s high school buddy, recapping the weekend. Good times.