Today was our last day of training at Shichahai, which makes me an unhappy monkey. We’re repacking and consolidating our things tonight, because we’re leaving Beijing early tomorrow and heading to Xi’an, and then we’ll be off to Tai’an a couple days after that. It *is* cool that we’ll get to see other parts of China outside of Beijing, but we could’ve easily spent...

It seems fitting to start with the whole reason I’m here: the training! We got up bright and early on our first morning here, so we could make it over to Shichahai for the a.m training session. We arrived on the campus with no real idea of what to expect, but I have to admit that, when we arrived at a small outdoor track,...