All things considered, I think he's happy with that.

We looked at it and we decided that maybe we haven't been doing all the right things. He came away with the mindset that 'I can still do this, maybe I just need to work on it more.' So that was encouraging.

They had one patch with one or two feet of standing water. You could choose to go around it or right through it.

You figure you've got about 175 meters out of 400 straight into the wind. He ran pretty good.

Probably with 350 meters left of the last lap he made a turn to get ahead of third and held on to it and finished.

You got to give him that. It would've been easy to fold when the weather got bad but he didn't do that.

It wasn't that bad early it was just raining a little. But the wind had really kicked in by evening.

We've been talking about trying to get these girls down below (13 minutes, 30 seconds). They're going in the right direction. We've running with a pretty inexperienced group, but if they keep going, they're going to be right there.

He's a lot more consistent than he was last year and that's got to be encouraging for him.