Well......hell on earth has arrived......

[Chef]

in the form of the Kansas State High School State Track and Field Championships in Wichita, Ks.

As some may remember, this is the largest high school outdoor track meet in the country....Over 3500 Athletes and somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-12,000 fans.......Saturday's normally get closer to 15,000 fans.

We started our broadcast at 6:30 this morning, and not signing off until the last event tonight, somewhere in the neighborhood of 7:30-8:00.

It is just an excruciating 2 days........Thank God it's not 2000 degrees like it was here last year.

Does Kansas have preliminaries? Otherwise, I don't understand why you have 3,500 athletes. Also, the Texas state track meet routinely draws 20-25k.

Yeah....Kansas has preliminaries.

Kentucky's is this weekend.

And I love covering track. Always have. Plus, I usually get to shoot it, so that breaks up some of the monotony (sp?).

It goes fast until the 3200. Then, you just grab kids for interviews then and it makes time go b y quicker.

BTW, had a kids triple jump 50-3, then 50-9 yesterday. He scratched at 51-9. Incredible.

Had a kid throw the discus 205-5 (Set the Kansas all-time state record)

Had a kid throw the javelin (can't remember the exact number) around 227........(Set the National record)