Today was just not my day. I had a pretty good start making up 10 positions in the first lap and thought that if I could stay on this pace I would finish in a reasonable good position. But halfway through the second lap I had difficulty in keeping the pace and on a tough course like this I then suffered for the rest of the race.
Finishing 45th is not what I aimed for but then again just to be part of the Olympics is special enough.
So 2morrow is the big day and I must say it feels like we have been here a lifetime. Yesterday it rained the whole day here so much that they had to shift the women’s race from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning.
I went to the coarse again today just to see how the rain affected the track but must say it dried out quickly and the temperature were in the low thirties again today and sunny. Tried to do 2 easy laps but even easy was not easy so I do not know what hard is gonna feel like 2morrow.
From me thanx for all the e-mails, sms’s and phone calls the last 2 weeks. Hope you had a little fun reading my web site and I will try and keep it updated as long as I am out here in the east.
Finally they opened the mountain bike coarse and to my (and a lot of other riders) surprise it was not as easy as everybody said. They made quite a lot of changes to the test course of last year and there is a couple of downhill sections where you need to be really care full.
On the first practise day a girl from Sweden was just a bit to fast and a broken collar bone is what she can take back home. Aua aua
Unfortunately I am not allowed to post any pictures from the coarse but I did get some shots of where Erik and I were training earlier (Ring road no. 5) and luckily we were not there this time round.
Luckily I have Patrick here in case I need to do some repairs to my bike other wise I might just had to go to the local mechanic down the street to get some help. I did see a couple of different hammer sizes so it just depended on the size of the problem.
When I say crocks are big in china I mean they are big. And they are cheap, cheaper than back home and this colour doubles up for China and McDonalds. Anyone out there that needs a pair at a special price???
At least the traffic here in Beijing does not look like this otherwise I do not know where Erik and I would have been training. Beijing just looks totally different after all the rain there was yesterday. The skies are clear and it is a good sight to see the sun again. I hope it can stay this way.
On Thursday we experienced some more rain here in Beijing. It came down heavily and the only way to get from the dinning room to our rooms was to use some African umbrellas. At least it was not only us looking like this.
On my training ride today I came across this Bulls supporter and did not know if it was part of Karl and Stephan, from Team Bulls, support crew or maybe another rider they have in China. HaHa.
Today I took it real easy spending most of my day watching the individual time trail on the TV. I must say the clear skies has come and gone and it is back to the good old misty look in Beijing
Tomorrow Erik and I will take on the Beijing motorist again for a piece of the road and if that does not work we might just head to the highways again.
Can’t wait for the cross country coarse to open so that I can get into the rough stuff again..
After it rained here in Beijing the last 2 days the air is much cleaner and there was even a sight of blue skies today. We made use of this opportunity to go to the great wall again and the training there is also much better than around the village.
Here is some pictures where Erik achieved his 22nd place and with the clear skies we even had a good view of the “Wall”. Just an unbelievable sight to see.
