The past two nights we’ve been treated with Pace Runners here in Colorado. It is amazing how energizing it is to have new and enthusiastic faces milling about in running gear at exchange points.

The past ten days of running back in the US has reminded me how spectacularly beautiful this country is that we live in.

Today, as our team ran through the Mojave Desert and past Lake Mead, we were all reminded that access to safe drinking water is not just an issue affecting the developing world.

It doesn’t take much to boost morale. A dozen home-baked cookies will do the trick.

Today’s route brought us past two locales very important to me: the town of Carmel, where I proposed to Brynn, and Big Sur, where I ran one of my favorite marathons only weeks before the start of BP

Today was another stellar day in the bay area, packed with all the most important elements of the Blue Planet Run.

Today was a glorious day as the Blue Planet Run made its return to the US with a beautiful clear day in the San Francisco bay area.

In a few hours I will be boarding a United flight from Nagoya to San Francisco with the rest of Team Orange.

What a wonderful relief to be out of Beijing and into the peaceful calm of the Japanese countryside.

This is going to be a very short blog.

Today we ran in Beijing.

It was hot.

It was humid.

It was extremely polluted.

There was relentless traffic.