Thursday, May 29, 2008

Training Vlog

I figured I'd get my flip camera out and see what's it like if I took some film every hour while training...

Sunday, May 18, 2008

"On The Breaking Point"

A month or so back, I was contacted by Whitney J. Fox, a grad student in the communications department at BU, and she wanted to know if she could follow me around for a day or so and document a bit of what I do for a project she was doing on local athletes training for the summer games. I always thought it'd be interesting to see an outside perspective on what I do on a daily basis. Whitney came to a Tuesday night vault session with myself, Brenner, and the Northeastern vaulters and took a bunch of still photos, then her counterpart, Andy Beatman, also of BU School of Communications, came to a high jump session of mine the next day where he took some video of the session, then asked me some questions about what I do. Later that day Whitney came back to watch and take some pictures of me at Harvard both coaching then getting a lift in. A week later they came out with a great film, as they entitled it: "On The Breaking Point."

...check it out:


It was great working with both Whitney and Andy. You should be sure to check out Whitney's new website as well: whitneyjfox.com. Be sure to check out the great video of Zara Northover, Northeastern alum and stud Jamaican shot putter friend of mine, that Whitney and Andy filmed as well.

As for training, I'm feeling great. Although sitting still sucks, I'm back to full workouts and intensity on my glute. I've had some great sessions the past couple of weeks and feel like I'm in solid shape. Unfortunately it's going to be real difficult to test it out as there aren't many local meets this time of year so I might have to wait until next month when I head down to Dallas for the Texas Greatest Athlete decathlon.