We arrived the other day. Not sure when exactly cos we're kinda screwed up with the whole time zone thingy and not having a night time. Got into the country with no passport check even though James had a bag full of white powder and we were importing 5kg of mince. Lucky it wasn't potatoes, apparently they are a great bio hazard risk. We had a day of training with Thierry Guergiou. He wasn't coaching us, in fact he didn't even know who we were or acknowledge us but we were there and so was he so it was pretty sweet. We then proceeded to attempt to compete with the world's greatest bush runners. Somewhat unsuccessfully. Unfortunately jet-lag was definitely a major problem. It caused us to lose several minutes per control due to the extreme need to sleep while on the course. That is our excuse anyway. However it was a really good learning experience as everyone was like "meuh meuh meuh don't go to Norway" but it seemed all G cos it was pretty similar to Gothenburg. Not that we've been there yet but it just was.
Angela and Jack ripped up top quality fields, "thrashing the gash" and managing to place in the top half of the field. LOL! The World Cup competitors all finished in the Top 50 for women and Top 70 for men, an outstanding display of NZ's prowess on the world stage. Well done guys!
We are staying in a club house between Stunner and Booger. I think they're spelt and pronounced different to that but it's pretty similar anyway. We kinda broke the water which means we can't enjoy communal team showers and now have to shower with the majority of the 7000 competitors at O-festivalen after the events. (There's lots of old naked people in there...) We're blaming the Americans though because there was a strange coincidental effect namely everything seemed to work less well after they arrived. There is a sweet Croatian dude there called Lino who doesn't really talk to us but he's cool. He has both apple AND orange juice but Tom and James still managed to beat him hahahaha.
Sweet as. Hope all is well in the land of the Kiwi. Love from The Team
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