Sorry for the long delay between posts here. Its been an epic 3-4 weeks. But first things first….Thanks to all the generous donation we have reached nearly 60% of our goal to raise $5000 to fight blood cancers! The goal is now within sight, but I need your help to reach it. Please forward a link to this page to all you friends and ask them to join our team!

I am now back in California after spending three weeks in Thailand. During the first half of this time I was on a research project in southern Thailand searching for evidence of prehistoric tsunamis. Sounds adventurous, but mostly it consisted of digging trenches in the tropical heat. I did find time for some training runs (see the previous post). One of my last runs in southern Thailand was an epic 12 mile round trip from Kamala Beach up and over a high headland to Pathong Beach on the resort island of Phuket. I left at 7 am, but still that was the hottest I have ever been in my life. I drank nearly 12 oz of fluid per mile and still spent the rest of the day trying to rehydrate. 

Following the field work, I travelled to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand for some R&R which included daily runs in some unusually cool weather, including my longest run so far – 17 miles. I got a couple of rounds of golf in too. 

The worst part about this trip, as usually, was the homecoming. For some reason, jet lag hits me much, much worse traveling east. I was completely worthless for over a week. To add to the misery, I picked up a UR virus – probably from the nasty recirculated air that I breathed for 15 hours on the return flight. Finally, over the last couple of days, I’ve begun to feel like my body and mind are in the same time zone. I’m looking forward to the next 6 weeks and some hard training! 

Go Team!

Originally published on my Team In Training fundraising page in 2011. Archived here from a saved webarchive file.