Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Here.

We made it in. The ride was decently long yesterday but felt real easy. It's been a while since I've taken a long car trip, but I'm glad we did it this way. Thanks in part to the many stops we took every couple of hours to shake out, the ride felt a lot better than a plane ride would have. Last night we checked into our hotel across from the track and have gotten a couple walks and shake-outs in since. The place doesn't have quite the same pomp as last year's Olympic Trials, but it's still a great facility that I'm sure they'll pack in without much trouble here in "Track Town USA." As one of the directors was quoted in the local paper today in comparison to the Trials: "I liken it to more of a backyard bbq."

However, whereas Eugene maybe a notch down, we've stepped it up at Team Chisam Headquarters. Head over to mchisam.com for your official Team Chisam US Championships 2009 fan kit. There're links to DecathlonUSA's Media Guide and even a score sheet complete with my PRs so you can keep up with the meet to see how I'm doing event to event. Thanks to the Team Chisam CCO (my brother) we're going to use Twitter for live updates throughout the meet. You'll be able to keep up, event-by-event, throw-by-throw, jump-by-jump. Subscribe to the TeamChisam page and you'll be sent web or sms text updates during the meet.
Also, check out the usatf.org for their Nationals Champs homepage where they'll have the entries (im coming in ranked 10th) , schedule & results (we start Thursday 11am PST), and even live streaming video during the meet (we'll see how much decathlon they show).

1 comment:

Unknown said...

hey, my Dad is driving up to Bend tomorrow...so don't be surprised if you see a Team Unwheatable fan on Friday. He's going to try and make his way over to Eugene to get a good yell in for ya :)

Good luck!