Training

Bratislava Training

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It has been a really good week training in Bratislava. I watched the teen cup last weekend, the kiwi juniors did awesome. My brother Carl came 3rd and Callum came 5th so it was good to watch that race, Tommy and Finn paddled well also, they have 3 more races each weekend for the next 3 weeks, so i hope they keep doing well. My kayak hasn't been made yet so i was using a sweet spiderman test kayak but it was a large so i went to the factory yesterday and swapped it for a smaller one but i still can't reach the footpegs so hopefully i get my one this week sometime before the world cup race in Prague. I have a big foam block at the moment so my feet can reach something. We picked up Ben and Shaun at the airport Sunday night and rearranged the apartment so that we have a bedroom each. I am in the living room but there are no curtains so i have hung sheets on the windows. We have eaten out at a few nice places around Bratislava, the Pizza over here is really good and the Slovak Pub has a good garlic soup served in a bread bowl and the blueberry dumplings were interesting...We have been out for dinner with the Kiwis, Swiss and Aussies.

The paddling has been fun, the course is quite challenging especially when there are lots of other countries paddlers on the river to dodge. There is a drop at the bottom of the course which is awesome lots of different moves to try, i got a bit of a beat down in there the other day so had lots of water up my nose. I trained at 8am this morning and then we packed up our apartment and drove to Prague it is a 350km drive but with the motor ways it didn't take too long. We dropped our boats off at the course and checked in at our super flash accommodation we have an indoor pool, bowling alley and sauna and only ten minutes from course. We have had pretty good weather so far a few rainy days and today it got up to 35 degrees. All four of us got pretty sun burnt the other day. We are now training in Prague until the World Cup which starts next Friday. My first World Cup race so i'm pretty excited.