I had an extremely painful experience of packing all my possessions and moving them to storage which was one of the worse days of my life. (12 x1000 in the AM, 14 hours of packing and moving, and a 1 hour evening run). I pulled out of Boulder and made the 700 mile drive to Flagstaff, AZ for a training camp to ready myself for the Chicago Marathon.  The drive was exceptionally dull and mundane. I took I-70 west through Grand Junction and then drove South West towards Flag. Those road are no place to break down or you may just end up in something that resembles "the hills have eyes". I drove until I couldnt drive anymore and stopped at a place called Tuba City about 75 miles north east of Flag.  I ended up having no choice but to stay in possibly the worst motel I have ever seen. I would have much rather slept in my car if all my crap wasn't in the back. I would highly discourage anyone from staying at the grey hills motel in Yuba City if at all possible. I literally laid my eyes to sleep and go the hell out of there asap. 

The following morning after leaving Yuba City in  a cloud of dust, I got to Flagstaff to begin a 9 week training block for Chicago. I have just completed my first week in Flag. I wouldn't say the training is harder than Brad Hudson's training just different. Im hoping the different stimulous will help my make strides in my training.  In 7 days we had two real workouts (12x400 cutdowns on monday and a Hill circuit on Wednesday). However, the 22 mile long run up the A-1 may have been the hardest session of the week even though it really wasn't a session. I was knackered after it.