No wonder they love him!

(posted by Stephanie) Wondering what's on the menu on a typical day at the Track and Field training center?

Well, there's an omlet station and a crepe station; hot cereals like grits, cinnamon oatmeal, and congee (hot rice cereal)

French toast, pancakes, chicken sausage, bacon, homestyle potatos, soy sauce eggs,
special cream cheeses like smoked salmon and pinapple creme cheese.

Smoothies are always available, and there are fresh fruit platters... he's even sneaking in some vegetables into the breakfasts.

Dinner and lunch are roughly the same, featuring comfort food staples like chicken parm, rotisserie chicken, chili, fresh fish, a beef dish, and a pork dish

There's a big salad bar, sandwich station, and a pizza station

Starches include the choice between white, fried, and black rice, homemade potato chips, homemade french fries, pasta, chinese noodles, chinese vegetables, western vegetables

The athlete's favorite hot meals: anything fried, anything with sweet and sour sauce, Italian specialties, black rice

And great desserts (hey, they're burning a lot of calories out there!)

People are really digging the food. An NBC film crew has been enjoying the food, and are talking about doing a feature about the dining center. The track and field coaches are hoping to have Adam speak at a convention of coaches being planned for Las Vegas. And apparently there's a crew from Birmingham, England, where the Track and Field training center will be held in 2012, who are interested in bringing Adam on board!

But, he's most excited about the way he's been supporting the athletes by meeting their food needs, like having smoothies ready for certain athletes, or a birthday cake for another athlete, and by motivating and encouraging them. He gave one athlete a pep talk about how competition was like cooking: you need to have your "mis en place" (a cooking term refering to having everthing chopped, diced, and ready before you begin to cook) of body, mind, and spirit in place before a competition.

And, looks like we scored tickets to see one of the track events on August 21!