The past couple months have been pretty hectic for me in terms of traveling, racing, relocating, and trying to restructure my life. I have recently settled down in Flagstaff, Az, and have joined up with the McMillan Elite team and am representing Adidas. My initial impressions of the team – Awesome. My initial impressions of Flagstaff – Beautiful. Now, after being here for a month, I am glad that I can still say that my feelings are still the same. Everyone is happy here, there are a lot of elite athletes coming and going, meaning that there are new people to run with and hang out around every week.
The most exciting part, for me, is that I get to train at Altitude, which is something that I have only been able to do during high school and college summer camps. Those were some of my most enjoyable memories in running, basically just being out in nature, exploring new trails and seeing all sorts of animals everywhere I run. I’ve already seen six elk this week, one of which was literally walking on water. I wish I had brought my camera with me last Sunday to prove it, but true story, I saw an elk walking across a lake, literally 100 meters from shore and in no more than ankle deep water. Just amazing.
It’s been great the past few weeks to train with the team. Everyone here makes flagstaff even more enjoyable by adding their own quirky attitudes to the runs. Things are both laid back and intense at the same time, it reminds me of how much fun I had training in high school and college. It is extremely motivating and uplifting to have such a positive attitude from everyone. The group feeds off of each other really well, and I am thrilled to be a part of it now.
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