We're blogging live from Track Town USA, a.k.a. the UC Nike campus in Bleugene, where some of us try to conduct normal business in the presence of the U.S. Olympic trials in track and field. Today's the first of two "rest days" down here, but there are still a lot of skinny runner types milling around town. We wish we knew which were the famous ones -- we can't ask them all for autographs.

The athletes may be taking a breather, but the security around Hayward Field is in full force and effect. And do we mean security -- we'd forgotten how fraught with danger is any event with the word "Olympics" in its name. It's reminiscent of the scene around the White House. We think we heard a bomb-sniffing dog bark at one point.

In any event, wandering around the rest of the campus, we saw a lot of old brick buildings that look like they will fall down in a big earthquake. Quite the contrast with the giant sports palaces that have come to define the place. It's like the University of Alabama, only with constant drizzle.