Olympic Distance - 19 Days

It seems funny the Olympics being on as Mrs H and I went to the Athens Olympics on our honeymoon.


I've been getting really into the BBC coverage and am now juggling my training with watching the coverage. TV is the new recovery session. Our telly will wonder what the hells going on. Typically it's used for collecting dust but now it's come out of retirement. This weekend training was planned in around the mornings coverage. I was that knackered on Sunday I decided against racing at Allerthorpe and had a day off watching the games. Mrs H put me to shame and went out on her bike. I was knackered and feeling in need of rest and recovery......... and this is only the end of week on. Coach Fi, you one bad lady!

I keep thinking back to what it was like on our honeymoon. Driving into Athens most days for another event. Seeing sports we wouldn't normally go and see such as beach volleyball. Sitting on the beach recovering from the previous late nights spectating or walking to the rowing complex. Driving into the hills and then catching up with the other people on an evening to talk about who had won what or who had seen what. Even watching the Greeks trying to finish off the facilities after the games had started. I kind of wish we were there again but having watched the mens road race on Saturday morning and seeing one chinaman and his dog by the roadside it just doesn't seem the same. Chinese security wouldn't let many of the would be spectators onto the circuit.

So this time it's Tsing Tao rather than Mythos.

From sheeps knackers to Prawn Crackers,
Acropolis Now to Chairman Mau....... you get the picture

Never mind world records. Athens 2004, magic times in deed.

BBC Olympic Coverage: "The Recovery Channel"
16th & 17th Aug (The Golden Weekend)
Bloody hell. Where do I start. We won a bit. Good of other nations to turn up at the velodrome or we wouldn't have had anyone to beat.

18th Aug: Tuckers Luck
Groggy at work after the alarm went off at 3am so that we could watch the womens tri. Not the best of days for the womens team but I think the GB cyclists are more than making up for that abd our over-hyped under performing track and field athletes who seem to be all attitude and no final.

19th Aug: Ali-B, I Salute You
Leeds finest (Alistair Brownlee) shakes the race up in the mens Triathlon. Always good to see Tommy give Johnny Foreigner a good licking. Alistair was giving it big licks until the final 15 minutes when the wheels finally came off his Olympic challenge. The lad's only 20 years old so time is on his side........... unlike some of us. Did he do too much early on in the race? I'm sat in an office at 09:06, he's at the Olympics so what right do I have to comment other than the time invested watching him this morning through bleary eyes. Perhaps he did but it was hugely entertaining and had me on the edge of my seat. The bin-men must have wondered what the hell was going on at 06:20 on a wet Tuesday morning and the shouts of "Come on Alistair" coming from the lounge window.

21st Aug: BMX in the Olympics & Drugs in sport
BMX in the Olympics WTFIT? Great for riding to the shops on. Depending on how far away the shops are I suppose.
Spanish cyclist, weightlifters and now four horses have tested positive. You'd have thought you'd have been able to trust the horses though wouldn't you?

Now it's our turn....
but what the hell do I watch on telly now.
When's the Vuelta? Hola