Once a year for the past 7 years I have done a data capture for the research I do as the USA Track & Field biomechanist for the top shot putters in the country.The data capture takes place at the US National Championships / Olympic trials and is used for quantitative 3D motion analysis that is then given to the athletes and their coaches. The process of the data collection requires meticulous standards of setup be made to ensure that... 

Earlier in the week, we also had a lot of company over to the apartment: one former HPC intern and fellow OU alumni; one of the elite athletes from my track club and his fiancé coming to find an apartment for their upcoming move to the area; and one of the other members of the club who needed a place to stay the night before a mid-morning flight out to Eugene for the USATF National Championships. It was a lot of fun having a ‘full house’... 

The last couple days I’ve been teaching at a USATF Coaches Education school and I’m exhausted. Day 1 had me teaching for 3.5 hours; Day 2 for 7 hours; and Day 3 for 3.5 hours. It worked out to 14 hours of speaking in a 44 hour period. Needless to say I’m sick of hearing myself speak and I’m sure that the students in the class are too. I’m tired physically and mentally and I feel like I need an extended vacation somewhere in a small... 

Ok…picking up where I left off, when the opportunity to operate my business out of the Impact Athletics center fell through I was scrambling to find another place. Mind you, I had had back ups all the while Futurama: Bender’s Big Score ipod (tip 1). Number 1 backup, if you can even call it that, was the original warehouse I was going to move in to when I first checked out the triangle area. I’m not sure if this option... 

Sorry for the delay. I had a lot going on. The good news is that gives me a lot to update on. Too much, in fact. So I’m gonna try to summarize the past couple weeks as best I can. The 2 biggest things that have happened over the past 2 weeks is that I passed my dissertation Louis C.K.: Chewed Up hd defense with flying colors and moved my wife and daughter from OH (where we had been living for the past 6 months) to Cary, NC (where... 

Well, its been over a month since I quit my job at West Point. For the first 4 weeks, I was mostly on the road and more busy than at any other time of the year. First I was in Columbus, OH at the USATF Jr. National Champs where my company was running the High Performance Center for the emerging junior athletes there. Then I had 2-3 days off before heading out to Eugene, OR for 2 weeks for the Olympic Trials. I had 3 athletes competing out...