The Australia Adventure Begins!

Who's excited?!?  Photo: Grace Luczak.

Our trip to Australia is officially underway--writing from the LAX airport, where we have a four-hour layover (we headed out of Newark early this afternoon) before we take the real flight, a fourTEEN-hour whammy straight to Sydney!

Everyone's excited to see teammates who've been training around the country and who we haven't gotten a chance to see in several months. There are plenty of new faces, too, but everyone's really pumped to head over and race for the first time in awhile.

I'll be updating my blog here with our adventures, but you can also see inside photos and blogs from me and other athletes heading to/already in Australia on my SHIVSPIX.com page. Check it out!

Thanks as always for your support, and GO USA!