[Clay handled the weather — chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy — as well as the competition.] This was a very, very hard meet, ... Mentally, it was very hard to stay in it and concentrate, block the winds, know that it's rainy and cold yet you have to go out and run a personal best.

It was just a great competition that I had with Roman. It's always great to beat the king,

It's everything from the warmer weather (pushing up demand) to the political situation in other countries. The spring break factor just adds to it. The stronger the demand, usually the higher the prices go up.

We didn't really have any bad weather at all, and you couldn't really tell what was going to happen.

The competition was perfect for us. The weather was a mixed bag of rain, wind, sometimes warm, sometimes cool - kind of like Rochester!

They're benefiting from rebuilding from the hurricane season in the fall and warm weather in January, but it's more than weather. The business just has been good. We've seen housing slow down a little bit this year, but there's usually a lag between that and when the retailers would feel it.