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 [...]