Euro Day 48 - SOW Day 5

Another day, another crazy train carriage - this one looked like it was out of the murder mystery. That rich old guy on the right looks like the likely victim.

..and another beautiful assembly area. This time we took the train to Rougemont - about 11 minutes away, then walked for another 10 minutes. We had late starts so the event was in full swing when we got there.  

We all had about 2 more kms to walk to the start - mostly uphill, which meant some hellishly steep and muddy downhills on all of our courses.   I had a better run technically today, and my uphill split times were pretty good, but I (and the rest of us) just can't keep up with the people who are clearly flying down the hills!  Nevertheless everyone was pretty happy with their runs except for Zali who mispunched.

It was pretty hot today so afterwards I insisted we drive 40 minutes to a lake I kept seeing in the tourist brochures. We could have walked there but no-one was keen on the 10k hike, so we drove instead.  The road was narrow and windy and stunningly beautiful.  It got down to one lane wide for the last 4km, but luckily we were tailing a bus who was forcing oncoming traffic to reverse until the nearest passing point. This photo is from before it got narrow - I'm pretty sure that's a glacier on the mountain ahead of us.

The lake was certainly worth the drive - although like the other lake we've swum in, the bottom is very squishy and muddy. Still it's either that or a glacial lake that would be so cold we couldn't dip our toes into. 

The photo below is when I reminded the kids that the original plan was that they would be back at school by now: 

Paul had no comment.

After a nice swim and lie in the sun we retraced our steps and headed back to our chalet for a BBQ dinner. 

We're going to be sorry when this event finishes tomorrow and our delightful Swiss lifestyle comes to an end.   

Luckily we've still got Norway and the world championships to look forward to.