13 February 2008 - “Hello everyone!  Well another month has passed since I moved out here to the west coast.

“I love L.A. I love being here - it’s very much a fun city. I like the people. There's a lot to do although I am focused on my task and I try not to let the big city distract me.

“You have Hollywood and the stars. I have been to a celebrity basketball game and it’s been a lot of fun. I saw all the ‘A’ list celebrities you can name there playing basketball. I really can’t tell you the location because it was a kind of a private event. Sorry about that!

“There's a lot of places to go shopping and there’s a big club scene, stuff like that.  In Houston you don’t get that and, of course, in Gainesville, where I went to university, you don’t have that because it’s a college town.

“I like to get out to relax and get away from track and field on the weekend, just relaxing with friends stuff like that.

“Practice has been intense - intense in quotation marks! It’s been very hard. You really have to stay focused because sometimes your body tells you you can’t go further. But I have been focused on my task because I know what I came out here to do and that is to be the best. Bobby Kersee has given me the training and I am very very fit. I feel I am in the best shape of my life.

“I am not running indoors. I haven't made my outdoor schedule so I can’t tell you where I will be running yet. I have to sit down with my agent and talk with Bobby to see what meets fit my training schedule.

“It is normal for me to run indoors but I don't have to race indoors to see where I am as far as my fitness level. My training speaks for itself. I prefer not to run indoors this year because my focus is on the 400m Hurdles and of course you don't have the 400m Hurdles indoors.

“Bobby told us we don't have to race every weekend because we have competition at practice. Shawn Crawford, Brandon Johnson and me, we all push each other. When competitive season comes I will be very excited I love competition.

“Right now we are doing a lot of over distance training and sprinting combined. Normally like in Florida we would have days where we focused on sprinting and then have our distance days but here we do a combination. Basically we do a lot of mileage.

“It is draining on the body but I had my mom here with me from Florida helping me giving me proper nourishment everyday. She was here for two or three weeks. It was great to have home cooked meals, Caribbean food, curried chicken things like that. I don't cook myself although I do cook pancakes on the weekends.

“I have been going to bed on time, 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock because I know the next day is going to be very hard. The only days we have off are Wednesdays and Saturdays and on those days I am the happiest!

“We have been pushing ourselves for the past two weeks and right now we are at the point where the workouts are getting easier because we had put in so much mileage the previous week. So it’s getting easier and easier and we’re fit.

“More next month!”

Kerron