I just had two very nice visitors from USADA-- Lee Ann and her husband. I got a phone call at 12:30 from Lee Ann and I told her I was at home. Which surprised her since apparently she'd just left my house and also had tried calling earlier. I had gone to the store. Note to self-- carry cell phone. Anyway, I got to chat with them for awhile until I was ready to "provide a sample." They were from Sacramento and come up about twice a year to do testing for USADA in Alaska. They said they were scrambling around trying to get all of us selected for random testing since we were going up to the glacier today.

It sounds like in 2009 the testing protocol is probably going to change to having the USADA reps come to wherever we said we were going to be and wait an hour but they won't be able to call us anymore. While I approve of strict doping controls it's going to be tough for us athletes to keep USADA updated on our whereabouts when the window that they are required to wait for us gets smaller.