BEIJING — Somehow, Alberto Salazar worked his way down to the third row, in an area supposedly off-limits, and found a seat. As the men’s 10,000 meters unfolded, he yelled encouragement and split times to his pupil.

He wasn’t sure if Galen Rupp heard him, because Salazar was sitting next to a group of Ethiopians, and they were pretty loud.

The Guardian - Bolt prepares to run Johnson's record out of sight

BEIJING — More than 24 hours had passed since Usain Bolt’s redefining of the 100 meters, and Ato Boldon, the voluble Trinidadian who used to run the 100 for a good living, was still trying to comprehend what he had seen.

“It’s amazing, and I’m not sure I’ve wrapped my mind around it yet,” said Boldon, a four-time Olympic medalist turned television commentator.

BEIJING -- Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva had gotten up from what looked like a cat nap to find out that she just won the gold medal in the pole vault.

For most of this humid Monday night in the Bird's Nest, Isinbayeva lay on her back on the infield, a Russia hat pulled snug over her eyes, passing on height after height as most of the world's best vaulters were confounded and eliminated. On just her second attempt of the night, Isinbayeva cleared 15'11". Then she waited.

BEIJING -- The hurdlers did not know the improbable had happened two hours earlier, that a women's discus thrower had won the first gold medal for the U.S. track team at the 2008 Olympics, an achievement historic and unexpected.

They were focusing on a similarly significant goal that was almost expected, a sweep of the medals in the 400-meter hurdles Monday night.

Sports Illustrated - China reacts to its fallen hero

BEIJING -- China's "Flying Man" is now its "Achilles."

In the moments after China watched Liu Xiang, its most popular Olympic athlete, limp away from the Games on Monday, grimacing with an injury, a reporter for the state-run television stood on the floor of the National Stadium and choked back tears.

The track races have been great: Tyson's Gay american record in the 100 during the heats and Jeff Demps new high school American Record. It was awesome to see the pure joy on Kara Goucher's face when she realized that teammate Amy Begley achieved the A standard and made it.

I was hoping that Chanelle Price would have advanced in the women's 800 but the trip up took more out of her then I thought. I was also hpoing that Lisa Koll from Iowa State would have ran better in the 10k- she had a great college year and I was hoping she would extend her season.

Now for a few other items NOT on the track. I read an article about the parking situation around Hayward Field and how horrible it is. It said that if you park in the wrong place then you will pay $12 for the ticket. Well it's $20 to pay for parking anywhere else. SOOOOO I was thinking I can park almost wherever I want for however long I want and only pay the $12 ticket. NO I HAVE NOT DONE THIS AND I AM NOT SUGGESTING YOU DO THIS but the idea definitely crossed my mind.

I was able to go to the adidas house where there was a press conference with Tyson Gay. He showed off some new adidas gear and also spoke about  the trials, Usain Bolt and may other topics. The interview was cool but the frat house that adidas rented looked awesome.

Two other events that I really enjoyed was visiting the wooden statue athletes. It's so hard to really put it into words but if your in Eugene make sure you stop by Birch and Fairmount. It's very amazing.

I have been by the adidas tent at the Villard Street Pub the past few days checking out that whole scene. On Saturday they had a Hootie 5k run. What is a hootie?? Well after talking to a few different people I finally got an answre but it took some time. It was just a really fun 5k with all different people doing it. There were past Olympians like Gary Fanelli, well known Brooks coach Kevin Hanson and many other runners. What a great day!!

Yes don't worry I didn't just put the word "sex" in the title to get people to see this blog (bit it worked I know).

So about a week ago I was at practice talking with a few teammates and we were debating whether or not having sex the night before affects your performance. Well, I did a little research and found out that it does NOT affect your performance. It might be different for each individual but for the most part it doesn't affect you.

Check out the article I read.

A few good races but the best part about the entire meet (not like I was there, but just from reading the results) was the 2nd place guy in the 1500. This "nobody" ran a 4:08 1500.

You gotta love the creativity of New York.

I was looking around at some of the other events on the site I came across the Milers Series. To my surprise I saw that Webb was entered in the 800. Unfortuatnely I won't be at the race but I would love to see him rip up the track and run something fast. I feel like he hasn't had a great start yet (and he already had a few races this year) so a good 800 will help shake some dust off.

Best of luck to Webb!!