Thursday July 21st, 2011

Here in Marquette things have really picked up in intensity. We did a 200lapper yesterday afternoon then drove to the sand dunes. The dune is about 40 feet high. Its so cool. Walking through woods, you wouldn't expect any beach type area then you come to this mountain of sand with more forest behind it. Needless to say it was a hard workout running all over the dune. Shani Davis was hard-pressed to stay with us and on the last lap, Cole and John Henry sprinted to try to beat him and Shani claimed "It was only out of pride that I beat them - those young kids killed me!" haha. so that was sweet to be training intensely with Shani who has personally met Barack Obama and says nonchalantly "'s a cool guy".  Today we picked up the speed doing some relays with a bunch of teams. Chunsem (The Korean coach) has been impressed with our composure during the hectic relays. This afternoon we drove to Marquette Mountain and did some killer power jump circuits before running up and over and back up and down Marquette mountain a bunch of times. The training of the National Team has been difficult but not that bad compared with our training in Pittsburgh. Last full day of the camp tomorrow! Its gonna be a grand conclusion if I know Korean coaches at all... Goodnight