So we arrived at Moscow airport after a 3.5 hour flight from Geneva airport. Everyone was a little on edge after an early 4am wake up to catch the train from Aigle to the airport in Geneva. Anyway we loaded the truck with bike boxes then jumped on the bus to start our journey to the hotel. Journey became more like mission as we got caught up in traffic and a 1-2 hour drive normally, turned into a 3 hour crawl due to heavy traffic on the motorways but we made it!
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| View from hotel.. |
We settled into the hotel then walked to the restaurant which is at the track for dinner. It was funny to see how everyone piled the food on their plates at the restaurant as we were all starving having had nothing since breakfast. It was quite an experience to taste some of the dishes. There was liver with fat spread on it topped off with tomato and rice and pasta that was under-cooked, Delicious. Surprisingly everyone lost their apatite at that point.
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| Track from outside |
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| Riding 300m to dinner haha |
This morning after our delicious Breakfast of donuts (that’s all we trusted after last night’s experience) we headed out on a wee road ride around the bike park which is about 1km from where we are staying and has about 10km of circuit with a few rolling hills and cambered corners to mix it up. Off to a track session now to get a feel for the enormous arena. It’s 333m long a lap and 10 meters wide and just 2mins away from where we are staying so that is very handy..
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| inside the Moscow velodrome |
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| massive |
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| Big grandstand |
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| 1 corner. Crazy |
The team’s bonding well and gearing up to get into competition starting in just 5 days. Can’t wait!!
Fraser
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