Oregon Weekend, Day 1

I landed at about 10:30 Pacific time, after 7-8 hours of flying today and meet Aaron at the baggage claim. From there the two of us drove about 2 hours to Eugene where we meet our high school cross country coach, Mark Mikel, and a friend of his named Rick Stuckey who lives just north of Eugene. After meeting up with them, we went to down to Historic Hayward Field, home to the "Men of Oregon."





Coach Mikel also unvailed the new "running club" in honor of his daughter Kelsey. We are not the Yellow Flying Monkeys. Yellow because it was Kelsey's favorite color, Monkeys because they used to call her Monkey or Monkey Butt, and flying monkey because she loved the wizard of Oz. Here are the singlets we will be wearing for the race on Sunday given to us by coach.

Later on in the day we went for a little bit of a run on "Pre's Trail." it is a beautiful trail to run on and hopefully tomorrow I will have time to take some pictures of it.
Right now it is raining here which could be the case for alot of the time we are here. Hopefully Sunday morning will be drier for the race.