Farewell, China!

Safe travels and best of luck on your return to the States. I'm sure you'll miss more about living in Asia than what you've written, I know for me the availability of good take away at a reasonable price is something we miss when we are back in Aus.

Keep us up to date on your races and hope to see you somewhere soon

Goodbye, dear Jeff!

There's a great crew in the VA/MD/DC/DE region though they're a bit scattered over the State and general forums. But great, great BTers and tri scene in general there.

Don't be a stranger!

Yi lu shun feng!  Yes, Beijing has a way of growing on a person, despite its hellish reality from an athlete's point of view. I imagine I will feel the same about Saigon when I leave. I remember those 4:30 AM sunrises--I would get up then as my cat wanted to be fed, go running, shower, eat, then go back to bed on weekends (and, in one instance, got up again at 9 and did another run, having totally forgotten the 4:30 one). I called it "the magic hour". Lived out by the Old Summer Palace and had the place almost to myself for running then--just amazing in a city with 14 (?) million people. I would run down the middle of the street to the Palace....because I could. My last day I rode my "Forever" bike from my apt. to leave it with a friend who lived near Temple of Heaven--imagine half of what I saw that day (in 2003) no longer exists. The city is just an amazing front-row seat to history!

I have quite a few relatives in the DC area so who knows, may end up there for a race at some point. Best of luck with the move and future endeavors!