Track and Field Blogs - Lindsey Anderson

If you've been reading the other blogs, you've basically heard everything from Josh, Leo, and Jenny but I wanted to throw a blog up as well while I'm here in Dalian! It really has been great here! We've had a few days where it's been pretty hazy, but we've also had some very clear and beautiful days. It's been pretty hot and humid but not as bad as I thought it was going to be, so that's been a nice surprise! The resort place that we're staying in is nice, the food is good, and I've adjusted to the time well and have gotten around 8 hours of sleep at least each night, so life is good! My training is also going well over here. I did a time trial 1500m yesterday at the track and got some help from Josh McAdams and Hazel Clark. Josh took me through the first 900m right on the pace we wanted so that was great, then Hazel jumped in the last 300m and finished it up with me. Josh was just starting his workout so it was a good little warm-up for him and was so awesome of him to do that for me and Hazel was doing some 300m repeats and jumped in with me at the end. She was going quite a bit faster on her other ones, so it was way cool of her to jump in with me on that one. We wanted it to be around 4:20-4:22 and I ran 4:20.6 so it was right where we wanted. I felt great throughout the whole thing and that gave me a lot of confidence. It also got me really excited to race in . . . . 9 days!! I only have today and tomorrow left in Dalian then I head out with a bunch of others back to Beijing for the opening ceremonies. Fun stuff!! I've attached a couple photos of us here in Dalian. It's been fun to spend time with all the other athletes here and get to know them better as well as spending time with the ones from previous years. Anyway, things are good!