So yesterday probably epitomized the definition of bitter sweet...
Yesterday, my friend Erica competed in the triple jump. Battling a somewhat serious hamstring injury and all, after watching her warmup I had my doubts as to whether she was going to be able to compete at all... However being the beast that she is she turned out a gutty performance and while she didn't perform as well as she wanted to, she still was the top American in the meet. So i'm proud of you homie... this year was just a preview of even greater things to come!!!
The good thing was that I was able to weasel my way down to basically RIGHT NEXT to the pits. I randomly saw some people i had just met who were sitting high up on the pit side and since there were open seats decided to sit next to them. We then figured that we could stand at the top of the first level by the pits. We then devised a plan to where I and Abbas my new friend would run down and I'd record the jump and he'd take pictures, while we run down my new friend Sherry would talk to the volunteer people and tell them I was taping my "sister" and i'd be right back. However when we went down there no one said a word and allowed us to stand basically on the bottom of the stadium on the stairs we didn't move... So i was able to easily record my friend's jumps as well take a nice amount of pictures.
As a whole the meet was loads of fun. Afterwards, I rolled out w/ Sherry and Abbas and met up w/ our friends Press and Lach from the Yale track team. We then went to a party that was for another Yalie's birthday. I do have to say that Yale was def in the house and it's weird seeing at least 15 yale kids at a bar in China... for now that's all
Did you know... That Erica McLain is the American junior record holder in the triple jump
