at the moment its 3pm here. we had the model event this morning which was on very similar terrain as we are running on tomorrow. the weather was very cold this morning, it even hailed as we run which wasnt fun. we have spain and scotland both staying in the same accomodations. we are already getting to know most of them and struggling with our spanish. we have the opening ceremony tonight which we are looking forward to but more importantly tomorrow!!!!!!
there should be live posts on the event website.
cya
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Spain Arrival
Hello all,
sorry about the long wait between posts but thats because internet was hard to access. we have arrived in madrid. the place we are staying in is cool with a few other countries. we have the trail event tomorrow which is a practice to get used to the terrain and the mapping. we all got given our ecards just before as well as our id badges and free shirt. we have dinner at 9pm over here but lunches have been big. the weather when we first arrived was a welcomed change from london as there was bright sun and no clouds to be seen. today has been different though, wet and grey. Today we went into town (city) to a huge mall nd a few people bought some clothes and things.
anyway will try update tomorrow.
sorry about the long wait between posts but thats because internet was hard to access. we have arrived in madrid. the place we are staying in is cool with a few other countries. we have the trail event tomorrow which is a practice to get used to the terrain and the mapping. we all got given our ecards just before as well as our id badges and free shirt. we have dinner at 9pm over here but lunches have been big. the weather when we first arrived was a welcomed change from london as there was bright sun and no clouds to be seen. today has been different though, wet and grey. Today we went into town (city) to a huge mall nd a few people bought some clothes and things.
anyway will try update tomorrow.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Last Two Days
Hello all.
the last two days have been awesome. we have been into central london, seen the big ben, london eye, the palace and regent street. we went to the british museum for an hour which the guys loved, with displays from egypt and asia and a few even talked to two maori painters who were there setting up a display. one of which used to teach at flaxmere high. the nike shop was also another stop that we will all remeber with some of the greatest two story sport shopping we will ever see. we all enjoyed the day and were nice and tired after.
day three saw us starting off once again with a massive english breakfast followed by a few hours of chilling out, letting the food settle. but then we were off on the trains and the tube again to get to the imperial war museum. this place was packed with some of the biggest and oldest weapons out. the lancaster bomber was one of the highlights for me. from there we traveled by train again to hampstead heath, the orienteeering course. This turned into a very good training with some of the guys having some pretty decent runs for there first time in a foriegn country. afterwards we travelled back and settled in for the night.
so far everything is going well. the free gym, huge breakfasts and daily room cleaning in the hotel is very handy. i think we have mr ff to thank for this. please leave comments on the page, the boys will love to here from everyone.
the last two days have been awesome. we have been into central london, seen the big ben, london eye, the palace and regent street. we went to the british museum for an hour which the guys loved, with displays from egypt and asia and a few even talked to two maori painters who were there setting up a display. one of which used to teach at flaxmere high. the nike shop was also another stop that we will all remeber with some of the greatest two story sport shopping we will ever see. we all enjoyed the day and were nice and tired after.
day three saw us starting off once again with a massive english breakfast followed by a few hours of chilling out, letting the food settle. but then we were off on the trains and the tube again to get to the imperial war museum. this place was packed with some of the biggest and oldest weapons out. the lancaster bomber was one of the highlights for me. from there we traveled by train again to hampstead heath, the orienteeering course. This turned into a very good training with some of the guys having some pretty decent runs for there first time in a foriegn country. afterwards we travelled back and settled in for the night.
so far everything is going well. the free gym, huge breakfasts and daily room cleaning in the hotel is very handy. i think we have mr ff to thank for this. please leave comments on the page, the boys will love to here from everyone.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Arrival (About Time)
Hello All,
We are here safe at the St Giles Hotel. We have just been out for a training jog to loosen up and have a look around. All the guys are pretty determined to stay up untill its night time here. The flight was a mission with a warm 28 degres in Singapore. We all tried to sleep on the last leg, not many were very successful though. We got pretty good comments from the Qantas people so we are still behaving ourselves. I better wrap this up as i only have two minutes left and we are about to go to the supermarket.
Cya from everyone.
We are here safe at the St Giles Hotel. We have just been out for a training jog to loosen up and have a look around. All the guys are pretty determined to stay up untill its night time here. The flight was a mission with a warm 28 degres in Singapore. We all tried to sleep on the last leg, not many were very successful though. We got pretty good comments from the Qantas people so we are still behaving ourselves. I better wrap this up as i only have two minutes left and we are about to go to the supermarket.
Cya from everyone.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Start Up
Hello everyone,
this will be the page where hopefully you can find out the most about our travels on. We will try and post comments after every race and around 3 times a week when we are in London. If you see someone with intrests in the team could you please tell them about it.
this will be the page where hopefully you can find out the most about our travels on. We will try and post comments after every race and around 3 times a week when we are in London. If you see someone with intrests in the team could you please tell them about it.
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