Sooooo it has been quite a while since my last blog update. My apologies. Much has happened.

The official season opened up with some disappointing performances; which, based on the amount of training I had under my belt this year, was to be expected. My first meet of the year was the Kansas Relays, held in Lawrence. Where I hurdled and long jumped. Other than that, I had only one other open meet, held here in Manhattan. I had a significant personal record in the shot put, a throw of 14.01meters (46ft), up from my former pr of 13.17m(43ft) from junior year of college. While I wasn't satisfied with my other performances at either of these meets, it was nice to finally get back on the track and compete rather than watching from the side-lines or worse, running repeat 600s.

My first heptathlon of the year was The Drake Relays, in Des Moines Iowa. I can't explain how nice it was to get out of Manhattan for a week, even if only to go to Iowa. It was my first time competing at the Drake Relays, and also, i believe, the first time it didn't rain for the meet. While none of my marks were particularly noteworthy, once again, it was fantastic just to be able to go out and compete after months of injury, recovery, and conditioning. While I wasn't expecting anything phenomenal, my final score was 5,505. Lower than I would have liked, but isn't it always?

In May I was blessed with an opportunity to compete in New York at the Adidas Grand Prix. It is a great meet, part of the Diamond League, and just one stop on the Visa Championship Series. Being a smaller competition, a full hepthahlon was not run; instead, for the multi-eventers, just three events were contested: the shot put, long jump, and 100m hurdles, in that order (don't ask me why). Overall, the meet went well. The field was very small. Hyleas Fountain - 2008 Olympic silver medalist, Jessica Ennis -2009 World Champion, Bettie Wade - my fantastic roommate (she has other notable accomplishments, but being my roommate far outweighs them, haha!), and myself. The shot put didn't go very well, after two fouls, I managed to put one out there at 12.85m and still came very close to fouling it as well. However, I got a personal best in the long jump of 5.94 (up from 5.89 from senior year of college), and ran 13.87 in the hurdles, a season best at the time. Overall a solid performance, especially considering my poorer performances earlier in the year.

I will compete in two more meets this year: USA Nationals, and The Thorpe Cup Team USA v. Team Germany. More to come soon... i promise.