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There has been a lot happening since my last entry. Moving into the athletes village
from our holding camp, opening ceremony, and of course lots of running.
Moving into the village we moved in last Tuesday march 14th. This went surprisingly
hassle free. We all piled into 3 coaches with our bangs and went on a 20-minute
journey into Melbourne town. Once we got to the village all the athletes got off and
went through a security check while our bags were taken else where to get scanned.
We then met up with our bags once we got to our rooms in the village. The village is
really nice here, we have everything we need and its all free. The food court is
open 24/7 there is a free hair dresser, arcades, shops (obviously not free), casual
dining, tv rooms, internet cafes, transport, as well as some other stuff. Rooms are
small but clean and has everything we need for a good nights sleep.
Opening Cermony was on Wednesday march 15th this was a real good experience. We
arrived at the Rod Lever Arena at 5pm we had to wait for all the countries to arrive
and then we had someone tell us what was going to happening. We waited in the Arena
until 8 pm and then it was time for us to go into the stadium. We were first to
enter the stadium as we were the hosts of last time. The stadium was close to its
90,000 capacity full walking out to the whole stadium cheering was an amazing
experience the fireworks where very impressive and the fact that I got to see the
Queen live made the whole experience unforgettable.
My running is going well did my last hard session last weekend which went better
than expected so that was good…starting to taper down now doing easy distance runs
but starting to shorten them. I am doing a lot of my runs with a friend of mine on
the Canadian team who lives near me in Michigan (Nate Brennan, 1500m). Everything
else seems to be going well everyone seems to be quietly confident in the village.
My room mate Dan Robinson took 3rd in the Marathon as well as Liz Yelling which was
a great start to the track competition. The crowd in the stadium was amazing very
loud and very supportive. Very much looking forward to see the 5000m tonight and of
course my race on Saturday.
Thanks
Gavin
from our holding camp, opening ceremony, and of course lots of running.
Moving into the village we moved in last Tuesday march 14th. This went surprisingly
hassle free. We all piled into 3 coaches with our bangs and went on a 20-minute
journey into Melbourne town. Once we got to the village all the athletes got off and
went through a security check while our bags were taken else where to get scanned.
We then met up with our bags once we got to our rooms in the village. The village is
really nice here, we have everything we need and its all free. The food court is
open 24/7 there is a free hair dresser, arcades, shops (obviously not free), casual
dining, tv rooms, internet cafes, transport, as well as some other stuff. Rooms are
small but clean and has everything we need for a good nights sleep.
Opening Cermony was on Wednesday march 15th this was a real good experience. We
arrived at the Rod Lever Arena at 5pm we had to wait for all the countries to arrive
and then we had someone tell us what was going to happening. We waited in the Arena
until 8 pm and then it was time for us to go into the stadium. We were first to
enter the stadium as we were the hosts of last time. The stadium was close to its
90,000 capacity full walking out to the whole stadium cheering was an amazing
experience the fireworks where very impressive and the fact that I got to see the
Queen live made the whole experience unforgettable.
My running is going well did my last hard session last weekend which went better
than expected so that was good…starting to taper down now doing easy distance runs
but starting to shorten them. I am doing a lot of my runs with a friend of mine on
the Canadian team who lives near me in Michigan (Nate Brennan, 1500m). Everything
else seems to be going well everyone seems to be quietly confident in the village.
My room mate Dan Robinson took 3rd in the Marathon as well as Liz Yelling which was
a great start to the track competition. The crowd in the stadium was amazing very
loud and very supportive. Very much looking forward to see the 5000m tonight and of
course my race on Saturday.
Thanks
Gavin
