Last week, playing on this field, we got a feel for the weather. This week, everyone stepped up. We knew what it was going to be like. Everyone dug deep and came up with everything they had.

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.

[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's great to score first. It's momentum builder, it puts them down. That's what high school football is, a game of momentum.

Thank goodness the weather is really bad so you don't have a lot of people on the beach.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields andwoods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be coldand hungry and weary.