{"id":32,"date":"2024-03-07T19:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:28:19","slug":"back-to-eugene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/back-to-eugene\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Eugene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is travel day to the 2021 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. I was fortunate enough to see and compete in the new Hayward Field stadium earlier this year for The Grad Prix meet. I was able to get back home (Florence, New Jersey) for a great week of training and some needed family time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If I missed you, I\u2019m sorry\u2026 I wasn\u2019t home long.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019ll be back on the 10th of July <span class=\"s1\">to celebrate with you all. Looking forward to it since 2020 made us change our plans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I can always feel the love and support when I come back to town.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s like pulling into a gas station saying \u201cfill her\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">So here we are back where my international career started at the wise old age of 17.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I threw in the World meet as a senior just graduating from Florence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was my first trip to Hayward Field. I remember throwing in a field where everyone seemed to have coaches to turn to and get<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>feedback to what they were doing wrong and instructions on how to correct it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>All I had was the usual Mom<\/span>, Dad and the pride I carry in my heart hearing \u201cCurtis Thompson from Florence, New Jersey\u201d and I was able to make my first USA team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Things are different now. Well I don\u2019t have Coach April (I really miss those days), but I still feel the love from my Florence family, State family, USA Javelin Project family and you supporting me by reading my ramble as I sit in the airport with a 4 hour layover in Phoenix, ready and excited to get to Oregon today and take care of the next step of the journey this meet. I will compete Saturday (6\/19\/21) where each athlete is given 3 throws to try and place in the top 12.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If I place top 12 then I get to compete the final day on Monday (6\/21\/21). So in the meantime, I have covid testing, uniform inspection, Javelin inspection, practice and then I\u2019ll relax and meet up with the rest of USA Javelin Project and eat good food.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is travel day to the 2021 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. I was fortunate enough to see and compete in the new Hayward Field stadium earlier this year for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-javelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithrowthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}