We did better against Franklin this year than we did last year, but the kids are pretty disappointed.

She's a tough kid. She works hard every day and she tries to get better. Some kids go to practice -- and practice is tough, no doubt about it -- and sometimes they try to find ways to not have to work so hard. Not all of them, but there are always a few. She's just one of those kids that every day she comes you know you're going to get a full effort out of her.

It's a pretty good size increase.

He showed me the bite, and it was already swollen pretty bad. We left for the hospital immediately.

The pace was pretty high. At that point, I didn't know if I was going to make it back on, and if I did make it back on, I didn't know if I was going to have the legs. It was kind of one of those things where you wondered if you're doing it for no reason, but as soon as I got back, I knew we had a chance.

I talked to the directors and you know, myself and Robbie have had a pretty off and on spring -- a lot of sickness and injuries. Robbie crashed bad right before the classics started. He thought he would be back on form by now, but he was fighting a lot of discomforts, and right when he started getting better he got sick -- probably due to the stress trying to come back from an injury. He has had a pretty off spring for him, so he just wanted to stay home and rebuild. Coming here was going to be traveling, and the race is really an unknown to him.