One Love! One Heart! In NYC

One Love! One Heart! Let's get together and feel all right.

The weekend turned out lovely!! There was such good energy in the air that you could not  help but be happy. So many gathered for the purpose of supporting the sport was an amazing thing to see. See me posing with some Jamaican Lauryn Williams supporters? This is what is is all about, enjoying Spirit of the sport and what we all symbolize while still being proud to represent for your home team.

I ran well in the 100, got out well but pressed a little at the finish instead keeping my form. 10.94  got me 5th in a very fast race where thought it was wind aided you could tell that we all brought our A game to line up against such an accomplished field. I have got some work to do but I am glad to have reaffirmed that I am not a 11.40 sprinter. Besides I finished with a bang winning the 200m in 22.35. Sholanda Solomon who I've known since we were on a world junior team in 2002 was hot on my heels and had a great day with a PR in the 100. Although this would have been a great opportunity for ESPN to highlight us on sportscenter as was penn relays, we still didnt make the cut. I just think it is unfair that they get to choose to cover us only when reporting on a negative. We need them to think that the positive is worth covering in order for us to regain public interest and bulid the sport the way it should be!!

My youngest sister, Leighandra and friend Devan were in town and it was great to have some familiar faces in the crowd. At penn relays we started a new ritual of getting a doggy bag when we go out to eat taking it to a homeless person. I believe in random acts of kindness to make the world a better place one step at a time and  think this is good way to show my younger sister that. She really loves it and so firday night we set about the task of finding someone in need of our care package. Easy enough task right??? NOT!!! There arent any homeless people in downtown NYC!! Now granted I realize this is a good thing but i must say i was surprised when after 40mins of walking around we hadnt found a single less fortunate person. We ended up asking  the concierge about about it and he was able to shed somee light on the situation. There was an initaive to get the homeless off the streets and taken care of that went really well so there are quite a few options for a person who made need a meal and a place to sleep. we did manage to find someone Saturday evenign that was greatful for the Thai food we shared with him. Hats off to NY for making a difference in the lives of those less forntuate!