Perhaps this post is a bit overdue since I competed several days ago now, but better late than never. For starters, my experience in Brussels was amazing. That’s pretty tough to believe considering that if you check the results there’s a nice little “NM” next to my name for “No Mark.” Although I felt as [...]

I did say I would try blogging more frequently with this extra time that I have now, so I suppose this is the start. I’ll try and mix things up a bit though since I’m sure hearing about just my training and competitions could get old. Be on the look out for some movie reviews [...]

It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post but considering that I’ve got a bit more free time thanks to my graduating last month I’ll try and blog a bit more regularly. In any case, this weekend’s Adidas Grand Prix will only be my 3rd meet of the season but it’ll also be [...]

Sadly, I haven’t been able to update this blog in a while thanks to final exams and what not. As of yesterday though, I am officially done with law school! It’s pretty weird to be typing that, but I handed in a couple take-home exams after knocking out all my papers and “in-class” exams last [...]

Viktor Saneyev competed for the former Soviet Union in the triple jump from the 1960s all the way into the 1980s. He won 3 straight Olympic titles and grabbed a silver in his 4th Olympic Games in Moscow (1980). Along the way he was of course a several time European champion and also managed to [...]

So although I went into last weekend’s meet with big plans, I didn’t accomplish my goals; any of them. But believe it or not, I am quite alright with that. Although the meet results say something different for some reason, I’m pretty sure I ended up jumping 16.25m, which would be a season best by [...]

One semester of school down, one more to go and now I’ve got a good month to myself before I get started on that last semester. Though I’ll readily admit that I am a bit tired of school, I am at the very least thankful for the time off between semesters and during the summer. [...]

Monday evening happened to be the first time I’ve laid eyes on my jump spikes since August 16th; the date of the qualifying round for the Men’s Triple Jump in Berlin. True story. I even joked with my training partners about how I had to clean out some remnants of “Berlin sand” before I put [...]

A few times a year, my coach will have my training group perform some jump testing. The exercises are performed from a 6 step approach and include 4 hops (each leg is tested), 2 hops-2 steps, 4 steps and occasionally 3 hops-1 step. It is tough to gauge what the distances mean on their own, [...]

I started “phase two” of my training on October 19th. Phase 1, which happened to be the first four weeks of training for me, went by quickly and it was great. I felt amazing, minus a couple days of lower back pain before checking in with my chiropractor. The first phase consisted primarily of a [...]