DATE CHANGE! AUGUST 3rd & 4th first annual Running Water 24 hour relay event. A fundraiser for Living Water International and participating high school cross-country teams. 2 - 15 people per team. Sign up today at http://runningwater24.org
print off this poster and post it at your work or school. To help recruit your team and spread the word.
Food, Music and Friends! Don’t miss out 
Godspeed
I would love to come to your event for a book signing as well please contact me at abe@h2oride.org Thanks!
I had the opportunity to do a book signing at this years Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Association clinic January 6th and 7th. Around two hundred coaches from around the state came to gain knowledge and here speakers cover a verity of topics. A few of the key speakers included
- Nick Winkler from Bellin Hispital in Green Bay
- Tom Kaufman, Madison West Boys CC & Track coach
- Darrell Anderson - Co-Head, Boys Track & Field/Cross Country
- Jon Furreness - Head CC and Track Coach, St. Joseph Catholic Academy
- Brandon Schlotthauer - MS, CSCS, PES, CES Bellin Hospital – Green Bay
My high school coach Bill Greiten helps run the clinic so it was nice to see him there. I probably sold about 40 books over the week and am excited to hear any reviews that come back from this crowed of people who ovously care a great deal about the sport of running. It is always great to see the faces that make Wisconsin high school cross-country and awesome place to compete. At dinner I got to sit next to Curt Kaczor who is the head coach over at Arrowhead. Arrowhead completely dominated the State Meet this year. Winning both the Boy’s and Girl’s D1 team titles. When I was in high school 
Curt coached at Sevastopol High school a D3 program that we had some pretty good races against over the years. He is defiantly a coach that is passionate about the sport. The the dinner it was pretty sweet to hear Elliot Krause speak about winning this years D1 NCAA National Championship. Krause was a co-captian for the Wisconsin badgers cross-country team this season. After collapsing on the final stretch in last years race the senior finish strong in 17th place earning him a well deserved All-American Honors as well as helping bring home the badgers 5th NCAA Cross Country team title. In high school Krause ran for a Appleton North where he won the 2007 Wisconsin state D1 cross-country championship as a senior with a time of 15:38 and took home the D1 3200 WIAA state title as a senior. It is always fun to see standout high school runners stay in state and do something great on the college scene. Other venders and companies there supporting the clinic where Revolution Natural Running (This is the first minimalist running store in the state of Wisconsin) On February 8th I will probably be at their store clinic signing books, details are yet to be determined. Also Healy Awards, Bluestar Sportswear, Rodiez Running Store, Shoe Odometer, RBS Activewear, and Performance Running were there adding to the atmosphere. If you are interested in attending next years clinic information and registration can be found on there website. www.wcccaclinic.com
Wisconsin Badgers Mens NCAA Cross Country Champions, Top 5 runners - Mohammed Ahmed , Elliot Krause , Ryan Collins , Reed Connor , Maverick Darling
Well I just ordered 375 books yesterday. I am so excited to ship them all out and hear what everyone’s opinions are of it. Thanks for all the pre-orders, I will have some on hand to ship out as orders come in over the next few weeks. After that I will hand it over to Amazon on other online outlets. However, you will still be able to direct people to www.abrahamlouis.com/runningwater to find it.
This past weekend I ventured north to the home of the undefeated Green Bay Packers but, more importunity to where my brother Josh is living next to an awesome single track trail. Baird’s Creek is a single track trail network in Green bay. If there are any “High points” around Green Bay they would by found here. However, rather compare the trail to
mountain single track it is better to describe it as typical Wisconsin woods with many bluffs that over look the creek. If it is your first time running in Baird’s it is easy to get confused because of the vast network of single track that are continuously branching off every which way. Unfortunately I didn’t have the GPS map going to post our route but basically all trails follow the creek on both sides if you’re looking for a more challenging route stick to the high ground. You will get a lot of short climbs and winding descents. If you’re looking for easy route there is now a paved bike path that goes along the creek for a bit. The path is new and the first time I have ever seen it, it is very nice for a leisure stroll. From there, are many places to hope off the main path and explore a bit.
We made about an 8 to 10 mile loop on a route that Josh has worked on perfecting for the last few months. A task that you will understand a challenge if you ever go and run there. The creek was starting to freezer over in spots attempting to keep the swift moving current 
under its icy layer. Open section come and go depending on the severity of the small rapids. Now is probably the one of the best time’s to run there. It can get extremely muddy in the spring and in the summer a bit over grown. However, in november the ground freezes providing excellent footing on summer beaten path. It is always fun to rediscover an old place. I have spent hours and hours on this trail through out college but have not run on it in at least a year. It seems every time you go down there you see something a little strange. As we ripped down a technical winding decent that ended with crossing a small contributory to Baird’s creek before shooting back up another ridge. Josh yelled that waaaas AWESOME! We shot around a switch back and a group of about 5 to 6 men where standing off the trail a bit around a fire. I’m not sure if it was a little Packer forest tailgating or what. Nevertheless we flew past them leaving to probably converse about “wow! those guys REALLY like running”
All in all it was a great weekend run and if your ever in the area I recommend checking it out. A good access point is Beverly Road. It is a dead-end with a parking lot. You can hop on the trail on the west end of the parking lot.
