The weather at the meet was less than desireable. The temperature was ok but it was rainy. I guess it could have been worse if it was windy too. But I was excited because I had gotten into the 400m. So the 800m did not go very well at all. We had a pace setter that went out in 52.0 for the 400. He was right on and I jumped in the middle of the pack. The entire second lap I don't think anyone changed positions and we all finished in the order we were in. No one had any sort of kick, whether it be the bad weather or some of us were still jet-lagged. My teammate Kevin placed third.

After the 800m, I did a short cool down and went right back into drills to get ready for the 400m. It ended up being about an hour and 10 min after the 800 ended, the gun went off for the 400m. For not coming out of blocks for the last 12 months, I actually had a pretty good start. I was in lane 7 and quickly made up the stagger on lane 8. I came through the 200 in the low 22 sec, came off the turn in 4th place and slowly moved into 3rd and then 2nd and finished in 46.76. I was really happy with the race, expecially for the 400 euros I made (about $525). I was alot more excited and focused for the 400 than I was for the 800 so I had my agent change my meet schedule so that now my next two races are 400's. I also got confirmed for a race in Lithuania, where I will have a layover in the Czech Republic. So I can add two countries to my list of visited countries.

After the meet, Kevin and I drove with his Danish girlfriend up to Aalborg and went to a graduation party of hers. We crashed at her house and then she drove us to the Billund airport the next day. On the way to the airport, we stopped at her grandparents house for an hour where there was a family get-together. They all wanted to see Kevin again so I got to meet all of them too. And it turned out that several of the extended family were European handball players, one of which has won two Olympic gold medals with the Danish national team, which has been the world's dominant team for most of the last decade or longer. So that was interesting.

I flew from Billund to Copenhagen where i had to spend the night in a cheap hotel. Luckliy I was only there long enough to sleep and get some breakfast before going back to the airport. It was a pretty hot night there though. I would have loved to open my window but I was on the first floor and outside was a shady-looking alley and did not want somebody crawling into my room in the middle of the night. But everything turned out well, with the exception of the 100 euro fee I incurred at the Copenhagen airport for too much weight in my luggage.