Monday 6th October
Woke early again, had breakfast and went out to do the first bit of the bike course, this was definitely more like it – aero position for about 99% of the time, smooth roads but still a fair bit of wind but instead of being side gusts it was head winds.
Nick & I both stopped to take a few photos on route when suddenly approaching us was a moped with a bike following – it was none other than Chris McCormack! He was going so fast ! Carried on for a while longer before turning round to head back into town, and again was passed by Macca, a few minutes down the road we could see him and he was obviously at the end of his training session and cooling down, I thought this is my chance so I started to pedal a little bit quicker , I reached him and then I overtook him and shout a big ‘Hi’ – he smiled and said Hi back –Fantastic!!!
(Nick got a photo of me passing him).
We stopped off at the local outdoor swimming pool which is 50 metres (divided into 2 sections), you don’t have to pay to use it, it is free to everyone, how good is that! The pool was packed and as we sat and watched for a while we saw Faris Al Sutan doing his swim session. We got in the pool ourselves and did a short swim it was really clean and warm. Biked back to the condo for lunch.
Woke early again, had breakfast and went out to do the first bit of the bike course, this was definitely more like it – aero position for about 99% of the time, smooth roads but still a fair bit of wind but instead of being side gusts it was head winds.
Nick & I both stopped to take a few photos on route when suddenly approaching us was a moped with a bike following – it was none other than Chris McCormack! He was going so fast ! Carried on for a while longer before turning round to head back into town, and again was passed by Macca, a few minutes down the road we could see him and he was obviously at the end of his training session and cooling down, I thought this is my chance so I started to pedal a little bit quicker , I reached him and then I overtook him and shout a big ‘Hi’ – he smiled and said Hi back –Fantastic!!!
(Nick got a photo of me passing him).We stopped off at the local outdoor swimming pool which is 50 metres (divided into 2 sections), you don’t have to pay to use it, it is free to everyone, how good is that! The pool was packed and as we sat and watched for a while we saw Faris Al Sutan doing his swim session. We got in the pool ourselves and did a short swim it was really clean and warm. Biked back to the condo for lunch.
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