Sure, it hurt to compete in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico at the Regional Championships. It hurt last Saturday at the Winston-Salem Throwers Meet as well. Yesterday, I went to a local knee specialist that Dr. J recommended. Dr. Liljeberg confirmed what I already highly suspected: meniscus tear, hopefully small.
I will have arthroscopic surgery and it will be fixed. I think within three or four weeks I’m going to start the hopefully not so long road back, base work that I have done each fall to begin with. Nothing hard, nothing fast, just long easy miles.
Back to the Regionals. I feel I did alright. I was happy with the Pentathlon score of 2,817 points according to Model 2010, over 3000 points on the old scale. I won and threw a personal best in the discus and the javelin. Got a gold medal in the weights and throw pentathlon as well but a guest from Panama (Omar Diaz del Castillo) kicked my ass. You can see a bunch of photos on my website under NEWS and on facebook.