Happy Birthday To My Love/The Definition of Track and Field

First things first! Happy B-day to my best friend and wife-2-be Aynsley Jenet Kent my professional photographer (hasn't been on her job lately) lol.

Rashad Grigsby defines track and field as a test of mental trials and tribulations.

You may ask why I'm defining the sport...well I learned the definition today. As you all know from my prior post today was the opening round of the 400 hurdles and the 4x100. Neither of which went well for me...I believe that its necessary to expound on the good things just as well as the bad. The 400 hurdles for another consecutive meet has been a learning experience; last week my downfall was going out slow, this week I went out strong and hit the wall coming out of the last curve. It wasn't an unexpected outcome but I was unable to cope and deal with it the way that I had planned. To make a long story short today was another step backwards 58.91 nearly 2 seconds slower than my inaugural attempt at the long hurdles. What more can I say, I have a lot more learning to do I guess.

The 4x100 wasn't much better simply put I got the team DQ'ed. I was disqualified for what seemed to me to be a legal start unfortunately the officials thought otherwise.

That's my inspiration for this post, track and field is a man's mental chess match. An athlete cannot let minor checks within the game blind him from the larger strategy to win the war. We have our good, and we have our bad days in the sport of track and field. But we must always remember to look past that and focus on the bigger plan. I have two more opportunities to qualify to run saturday so I have to allow the past to be the past and focus on my races to come. My main focus being the high hurdles is what is going to be the forefront tomorrow. But today I'm stuck with my head hanging because I took away some of my teammates chances to run saturday in the finals. I apologize for my mistakes and accept full responsibility.

Tomorrow is a new day!!! If its God's will it will be a good one.