{"id":67,"date":"2011-12-21T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2014-01-12T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:25:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?page_id=67","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conway Hill<\/p>\n

The Times<\/a> (London) 2012 Olympics featured blogger<\/p>\n

Member of TAFWA – Track and Field Writers of America<\/p>\n

Welcome to TrackChill.com<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I am Conway Hill, the Chill in Trackchill.com and welcome to my view from the finish line. That\u2019s my favorite spot, the finish line at a\u00a0track meet. It\u2019s the spot that I occupy at every meet I go to and\u00a0I’ve\u00a0been to a lot of meets starting from my youth when I started running track as a member of the local Boys Club.<\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019ve seen a lot of track and field. From youth club competition to Junior High School, High School, College and club competition as a young adult. I competed in other sports, but track and field was always my favorite. And since the \u201880\u2019s anyone that has ever known me well knows that on any given weekend during the springtime and into the summer, I can be found at the finish line of a track meet somewhere in the United States.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been to the Olympic Trials and the Olympic Games. I\u2019ve watched the NCAA Championships, the US National Championships, Community College and State High school Championships. I grew up going to the Modesto Relays, Fresno Relays, Pepsi Invitational, Bruce Jenner Classic and the double dual meet with UCLA, USC, Stanford and Cal. And I\u2019ve been known to drive from Northern California to Los Angeles to watch a track meet then turn around and drive back home!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been called a track nerd, track geek, and track rat. I\u2019ve competed; been a timer; announced meets; and have catalogs of photos I\u2019ve taken at meets. I saw Carl Lewis run 9.97 in Modesto when Jim Hines still held the WR at 9.95. I saw Edwin Moses run his 47.45 WR at UCLA, and Mo Greene and Michael Johnson go head up in Sacramento \u2013 with both pulling up and John Capel getting the Olympic Trials win! I watched the US v East Germany in Los Angeles and the US v the Soviet Union in Berkeley, when we still ran global duals.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve sat at a lot of finish lines. Finish lines of cinder tracks; finish lines of Tartan tracks and now finish lines of Mondo tracks. I\u2019ve watched the finish of races timed by crews with stop watches, Accutrak cameras, and now electric eye beams that trigger computers that transmit the results instantly to boards on the infield and Jumbotrons. A view of races and events spanning over forty years and now with the internet I can share my views with you and you can share your’s with me.<\/p>\n

Many of you may know me from my blog \u201cThe View From the Finish Line\u201d. Thank you for reading. I\u2019ve relocated to this site to make it easier to find with a shorter name, and the ability to add things like a discussion forum so that readers can have a full experience. After all part of the fun of going to a track meet is talking about it with everyone around you! So please let me know what you would like to see on the site. I do this because I love it, but like a track meet it\u2019s more fun when you can share it with the people in the stands. I hope you enjoy the site.
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