The indoor track season is heating up, and it’s is making me anxious to start my season too. Yet again this year I’ve had the pleasure of providing news and commentary for the Evergreen Athletic Fund’s CollegeHammer.com and HSHammer.com.  This season has already produced some great results that have been fun to write about.  I’ve spent more time recently working on both sites and our traffic has doubled thanks in part to some great features we’ve posted on my training parter Kibwé Johson, world junior champion Walter Henning of LSU, my friend Brian Richotte, D3 record holder Kevin Becker, Norwegian champion Steffen Nerdal of Memphis, as well as emerging coaches Dave Hahn and Scott Block.

As anxious as I am to compete, however, I’m still willing to wait another until another month or two.  While the results are fun to watch, the indoor weight throw is not very helpful to the hammer throw.  That leaves me counting down the days until the outdoor season starts.  The past few years I’ve opened up just before the Mt. SAC Relays in mid-April.  This year, I can’t wait that long.  My results from last year left a bad taste in my mouth and I am eager to get back in the ring and show others that I am still on track to reach the 2012 Olympics.  My first meet will likely be at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma on March 13th.  Assuming all goes well, I will then be traveling the Arles, France (near Marseille) to represent Switzerland in the European Cup Winter Throwing on March 21st.  A tentative schedule for my season can be found here.

On the other side of my life, I have decided to leave my position with Univar.  I have been working there part-time for the past year and it has been a great experience.  The people at Univar gave me a wonderful opportunity that allowed me to gain a lot of experience while still having time to train.  Unfortunately, the job also required me to come back to Seattle and I found myself driving back and forth once or twice a month last spring.  This situation ended up being pretty similar to how things were in law school for me.  After spending most of the fall training full-time again in Kamloops (and making a lot of progress), I decided that it was better to spend my free time up here with my coach as long as I can afford to do so.  I am thankful for the opportunity that Univar gave me and will continue to keep a hand in the law even if I’m not working at the moment.  In fact, I recently published another legal article and hope to continue to write in order to keep up-to-date on the ever-changing world of tax law.