2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships

Hey All,

So this past weekend I was in Puerto Rico for the CAC Championships. I ran the first leg of the 4x 100 and the second leg on the 4 x 400. We took a gold in the 4x100 (1st leg) and we got a bronze in the 4x400 (second leg).
The split times for the 400 relay were 53.63, 52.62, 53.82, 54.67. 

I have Nationals in Trinidad Aug 13-14th where I'm running to qualify my 100, 200 and the 4x400 for Worlds. Anyz if you go to the below link and scroll down to 4x100 and 4x 400 you can find me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Central_American_and_Caribbean_Championships_in_Athletics

Thanks again for all your support.

And it Begins

Hello World!

As it stands, I have opened the season with an 11.8 and 54.4. I am temporarily pleased with having come off of an Achilles injury that put me out for the entire month of March. I’m incredibly optimistic but feeling the intensity of my goals this year. I have two more weeks of rigorous practice and then will be running at Mount Sac for the Jim Bush meet. At the end of June, I have a Nationals meet in Trinidad and Tobago that will qualify me for the 2011 CAC Championships, Pan American Games and most importantly, The World Games.

Major Meets:

Goals: 11.2- 23.2- 52.7
Trinidad Nationals- Trinidad & Tobago- June 25-27

2011 CAC Championships: Puerto Rico, July 8th – 10th

European Circuit- July

2011 IAAF World Championships: South Korea, Aug 27-Sep -4

2011 Pan American Games: Mexico, October 14–30


From vitamins, to food intake, to hours of recovery; all are of utmost importance, in addition to the intensity required for training, which I have been severely disciplined in doing. I have recently started collaborating with one of the greatest nutritionist in the world. He is a biochemist and works with not only the top track athletes in the world, but other high profile athletes in other sports. I am very excited about this, as he has calculated the best meal plan for me in moving one step closer to my goal. Though the plan is no piece of cake, I will be following it until 2012. I am also pleased to say that I have been working with my new and top-of-the-line coach. On top of it all, I have the resounding support from my awesome and absolutely loving parents, sisters and brothers, my best friend, my love, and closest friends. Oh, and I can’t forget my secret English clique warming up London for me ;-). Last summer, the European Circuit was one of the toughest yet rewarding things I’ve had to endure to date, but it pales in comparison to what I have coming. With every month that goes by, the realization of what I am working towards is like water fermenting to ice, something I’m finally starting to see take shape.

Thank you again, for all your positivity and encouragement. I am always overwhelmed and grateful of the people I continue to meet on this path who are so caring, uplifting and supportive of me.

Yours Truly,

Magnolia

Little Bit of Background II

In 2008 I was not able to run due to an achilles issue, which just so happens to be one of the worst injuries I’ve ever had in my entire life. I still have some issues with it but not nearly as bad as before. I take the necessary precautions to treat it and have had a team of people that have aided in taking care of me so that it does not regress to the state it was in before.

Anyway, I suppose the point of this entry is to tell you a little bit about me and to say that I will try to do much better at updating. Like I said earlier in this post, track has always been a very personal thing to me. What I share with others is either displayed through performance on the track or through character improvements that are developed while being an athlete; but rarely do I speak to people outside my close nit friends or track teammates about my journey. One of the primary reasons I am going to make a greater effort in being open about track is to share with others what it takes to live your dream, and what I’m doing to live mine.

Life isn’t about sitting back and watching others cruise by you, it’s about getting out of the passenger seat, believing in yourself with every fiber of your being, and with great certainty and with faith putting your foot on the accelerator towards exactly what you want.


I want to send a HuGe thank you to all of you for supporting me last year economically, emotionally, physically, mentally, everything below, above and in-between that. I would not be able to do what I am meant to do without your love and kindness.



Season is coming upon me, and I’m feeling ready and excited. So here here to this 2011 track season.



"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined."
Henry David Thoreau

A Little Bit of Background I

So I started this blog last year per request and at the advice of friends to document my journey till 2012 London Olympics. Track, although on a seemingly public stage, has always been a personal journey for me. It is for this reason I find it difficult to update my blog. I do in fact have journals of every track practice post-college and every body change I’ve had since my junior year of high school. I have been running track since the 4th grade. I would say that my love for track forged from my initial thoughts as a child that I was a superhero. When I was a kid I used to think I had tons of superpowers, speed being one of them. As years went by all the other things that I thought were my “super powers” ended up being figments of my imagination. For instance I used to think I had the ability to see the world moving; never quite realizing it was the clouds. The one physical power that always seemed to remain with me was my speed. Any time I had a chance to race someone I would race. Every grade I’ve been in since 4th grade, one of the most important things I always had to do was run against the fastest girl then after beating them; I’d race the fastest boy. In high school I was the fastest person for two years in a row in my state. Eventually in college I went on to study Journalism and train on a track scholarship at Cal State Long Beach where I was NCAA qualifier, was apart of a 4x100 relay that still holds the record at CSULB, placed 4th fastest in the region in the 200 and 5th fastest in the 100.

I am now on route towards one of my final destinations in track, 2012 London Olympics. But, before I get there I have a few stops on the way. Last summer I qualified and competed on the track circuit in Belgium, Italy, London and France. It was an amazing and challenging experience. I will be competing again this year on the circuit, competing in much faster and challenging races.