Euro Day 52 & 53

Thursday, 15 August 2019

Two days will have to merge into one as its almost 11pm and of course we have another big day planned for tomorrow.

Yesterday was the first time I ran in Norwegian terrain since 1992. It was fantastic - I made mistakes but it was just so enjoyable that it didn't matter.  Jett really enjoyed his course as it was more challenging than the ones he has been doing in Switzerland. His age group get quite a range of difficulty - in Norway and Sweden they tend to be harder which Jett prefers.

After the races we went across the border to a supermarket positioned to get all the Norwegian shoppers who want to pay the slightly cheaper Swedish prices.  We have hopefully done most of the shopping now for the rest of our trip.

In the evening I had to participate a jury meeting which was exciting and resolved satisfactorily for those involved I think.

Wednesday morning I went for a nice walk around our local area.  Sponvika has a big history as it faces Sweden and has been in an important strategic position.  It's been completely razed by the Swedes and occupied by the Germans at various times.  Now it is a mixture of old and new holiday houses with boats and jetties. 

Then we went up to the big World Championship Arena. We got to run our specator races first - which once again was just great fun, then we settled in to watch the final off the Long Distance Event.  It was fantastic. We had big screens with GPS tracking, lots of cameras in the forest, commentry, and quite exciting races in both mens and womens.   Thankfully there were no protests, so I didn't have to do any Jury work.  All the Australians did really well I thought.

Tomorrow is a rest day for the WOC athletes, but not for the spectators. I'm looking forward to running again, then we will do some more touristing before I have to attend a team official's meeting in the evening.  I can't believe we only have 3 more nights before we head home. Noooo!