Monday, June 30, 2008

U.S. Olympic Trials

The Olympic Trials are going on this week! Josh will race the 3000 m. Steeple Chase on Thursday, July 3 @ 9:30 pm (prelims) . 12-14 people will qualify for the Final's race which will be held on Saturday July 5. Top 3 Finishers in Saturdays race will make the Olympic team!! (assuming they have run the Olympic A Standard which is 8:24.6) Josh's PR so far is 8:21, he was the top American for this event last year so we're planning on having an exciting time at the trials! If you would like to follow the happenings you can go to: USAT.org (on the top R. of the page you will see an Icon that says Olympic trials (if the icon you see is advertising the youth, or junior championships just wait a sec. and the correct icon will pop up.) Then click on schedule and results. Also NBC is supposed to be showing his race live on Saturday @ 2:45 Oregon time, 3:45 Utah time. Tune in and cheer (& pray) for Josh! Nice job on making it to this point! I'm way proud of you!

9 comments:

The Larsen Gang said...

Hi Whitney, it's your cousin Carrie. Hope you don't mind. Congrats to Josh. That is way cool and we will be rooting for him. How exciting!! GOOD LUCK!

Kachelle said...

ahhhhh!!!! i'm so nervous for you guys!! i reall hope he makes it. how are you staying calm for all this?

meghannamarie said...

Good Luck Josh! We will be praying and rooting you on! Have fun!

Elena said...

Good luck to Josh! We will be watching to see how things go and praying for him!! I really hope he makes it!! Best of luck! And have fun!!
Whitney, I'm so nervious for him, I have no idea how you do it?!

Unknown said...

GOOOOOOD LUCK! We wil pray for him! I am so excited for the both of you!!!!

carin t said...

We'll say some prayers! Good luck - and have fun! How exciting!!!

Jill said...

Just saw the semifinal results, WAY TO GO JOSH! We will be cheering for you on Saturday. You can do it.

allegra said...

WOW!!!! what an amazing accomplishment just to get to that point. good luck to him!

Whitney, congrats on your pregnancy!!!!! I found your blog off of Erin's. Hope you don't mind me saying hi!

Unknown said...

whitney!! we are so proud of you and josh! we love you guys and wish you the best, you will be in our prayers!