Over the course of the last year I have come to know a life filled with running, hotel rooms, redeye flights across that country, life on the road, track meets, athletes, corporate BS, shoes and everything considered “Grassroots”.  Whatever that means.

On Thursday I will embark on a month long journey that will take me across the country and abroad.  At 6:00am Thursday morning I will be asleep on a plane bound for LA, the first leg of my trip.  For those of you have not seen the event that I have organized in LA please see (http://www.runnerspace.com/ChampionsDay).  NOTE: Ross is responsible for the awesome page.  I am not technically savvy enough to pull something like that off. 

LA should be a fun time; a track meet, kickin it with Olympians and sun…all and all an above average weekend.  After the adidas Track Classic is over on Sunday I’ll fly back to Portland for a quick sales meeting and touch base with all parties involved with the OT’s in Eugene.  Then on Thursday (22^nd) I’ll be flying to Chicago to work with Fleet Feet on the Soldier Field 10mi.  Who knows, I might even run the race.

On the way home from Chicago on Saturday (24^th) I’ll make a stop in Boulder for the Bolder Boulder 12K and meet up with my man Jon Madsen (Maddog as he is better known as) for a quick tour of the town and meet and greet with the Boulder Running Company.  I’ll probably try to meet up with Melody Fairchild while I am there as well and talk to her about her up coming camp.  Which everyone should check out (http://www.fairchildsportscamps.com/).

On Monday (26^th) afternoon I’ll head back to Portland and catch up at the office where I will stay for a couple of days.  On Thursday (29^th) I’ll head down to Eugene to get the final touches on the trials done and watch the 10K WR go down at Hayward.

After that I’ll be on a plane bound for China, where I will be learning the ins and out of shoe production.  I’ll be there for 10 days before I come back just in time for the trials.  I won’t bore you with all the details yet, but stay tuned for updates along the way.

Peace,

Chris

P.S. Please pardon my spelling / grammatical errors.