I'm back to San Diego after holidays in New England with my family and I'm feeling happy, healthy and ready for another great year. I’ve hit the ground running and the next month is stacked with exciting endurance industry events.

My last long run before the Sedona Marathon on 2/7 is this weekend at the Diamond Valley Lake Marathon. The course is flat as a pancake so I will focus on a proper warm-up and cool down with race pace in between. My good friend Austin, who raced the Silverman 70.3 the same day I did the Silverman 140.6, will also be running so we’re stoked for another fun race and road trip together.

Next week, Dr. John Martinez at Coastal Sports and Wellness Center will host the January TCSD club meeting and the 2008 Ironman World Champion, Craig Alexander. After attending the interview with Chrissie Wellington in October, it’s going to be great to see "Crowie" and something tells me we’ll be seeing him again 2 days later at this year’s Endurance Sports Awards.

ESA 2008 left to right: Mike Reilly, Toby Guillette (Me), Gale Bernhardt, Jesse Hammond

The morning after the ESAs, I’ve volunteered to help with the Xterra Mission Gorge 15K. I ran the course on Sunday and for a 15K, this course is legit. There are always pros in town for the ESAs so it will be cool to see who shows up to throw down.

Then I’m off to run the Sedona Marathon with my brother. He’s super-fit right now so I’m hoping I can hang with him for the 26.2. I also got a call from the young ultra running prodigy, Nick Hollon, letting me know he’ll be toeing the line as well. But after the 26.2, I’ll still be thinking about Jimmy from the MCM community and my x-girlfriend who are both running the Rocky Raccoon 100 in Texas that day.

Then it's right off the plane from Sedona to this year’s Running USA Conference here in San Diego. That weekend, we have a group ride planned to preview the Palomar Mountain climb in Stage 8 of the Tour de California, the weekend before the TdC comes to town for its final stage!

As you can see, the next month is action-packed and I’ll do my best to keep you updated along the way. To better serve you, my daily posts can be found on Twitter @TobyGuillette and/or you can subscribe to my RSS feed for auto-updates when I publish a blog here. Thanks for joining me for another great year of adventure!