div style=”text-align: center;”div style=”text-align: left;”Earlier in the week, I headed to the City of Rocks with part of the team. It was a chance to get out of town before the 4th of July rush started and add some variation to strength. br /br /We slept hard under the stars, ran long in the morning and climbed until dark. I think we fed the neighborhood chipmunks about as much as we fed ourselves (a lot!) and probably each came home with a few new smile lines. Good times, good training and good company.br /br /div style=”text-align: center;”object width=”425″ height=”344″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/01hW2X8Feasamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;”/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramparam name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/01hW2X8Feasamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″/embed/objectbr /br /div style=”text-align: left;”I did make that jump, just not on camera. Promise! After the city, we returned home to an uphill running time trial, know as Harpers. One of our coaches, Chris Mallory, took some video:br /br /div style=”text-align: center;”object width=”425″ height=”344″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0IcOsD5KQfAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;”/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramparam name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0IcOsD5KQfAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″/embed/objectbr /br /div style=”text-align: left;”For Mallory’s update on Harpers, as well as future goings-on with the ODT, check out our