I thought it was overall good competition, but the cool weather and the wind did not cooperate with us. It's been so hot lately and then, bam, we get this cold spell.

Chandler and Enrico are a great one-two punch for us. They feed off of each other. They both want to win. Chandler is just faster but they don't dislike each other. There's just a nice competition.

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

I thought we played well overall. But we?re in better shape now and the cooler weather has helped us because of our lack of depth.

In a sense, these mergers can also be seen as an epitaph for the competition that many of us thought we would enjoy as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,

[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.