I was aiming for a 5:30 mile, but I'm still happy with my race. I didn't know where the other females were, I was just working off the guys. The females started coming closer and I saw them and pushed the speed a little more.

I felt pretty good today, I was trying to keep my consistency. I ran with a couple of guys for awhile, but then I was just pretty much racing with myself.

Before this year I hardly raced for the past couple of years. I'm just trying to get back into it and get more speed. I think the time off makes you more determined.

When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty solid relay, so we thought we could take a crack at (the U.S. Open record) tonight. We're all a little tired, but that's fifth-fastest American relay ever, so it's not a bad time. We ended tonight on a great note.

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he’s improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.