Hello all from beautiful the streets of Szeged,
We made it to Szeged finally, and most of the senior team is here and getting to know each other very well. Last night we went for a night out in Szeged, it was their steak cookout and it was basically an American BBQ. It was a loud tent festival on the local river here. There were tents selling all sorts of different things ranging from a pretzel coated with cinnamon and sugar shaped like a curly fry and cooked on an open flame to light up hats to the cigarette stand. The whole team was walking through the festival and they had a ska rock band playing obscenely loud. We had a bit of fun there, and they even sung the theme to Cops...Bad Boys Bad Boys.
This morning is was down to business we woke up and had breakfast, Brittany loved the make your own cereal bar, I loved the eggs and meat. We then caught our bus to the race course. We got on the bus and there was another team already there, the Iranian team. Turns out that they were incredibly nice, they took some film of us asked us our names and asked to trade jerseys after the event. It was a senior mens only team, but they were extremely nice to all of the women on the bus, showing that they are incredibly progressive (These were the Iranians you never see on TV).
We drove about 15 minutes out of town through a bunch of farm land then there was an opening in the corn and one of the top race courses in all of Europe just appeared (It was like field of dreams only for paddle sports, maybe lake of dreams?). The course is all man made and a straight as can be, there is an island in the middle with cutouts so you can just paddle up on one side and go on to the race course on the other side (Augusta you would have loved it).
It is incredibly intimidating being at an Olympic race course that is just so gorgeous, and perfectly straight. Brittany and I had a mediocre practice, still trying to adjust to new people in the boat. The team had a great overall practice and when we came back to look at film it made us appreciate what we were doing so much more. We are now getting ready to go out and see all that Szeged has to offer, after those 15 minutes are up I think we will bond more with the team:)
Love,
Brittany and Grant
We made it to Szeged finally, and most of the senior team is here and getting to know each other very well. Last night we went for a night out in Szeged, it was their steak cookout and it was basically an American BBQ. It was a loud tent festival on the local river here. There were tents selling all sorts of different things ranging from a pretzel coated with cinnamon and sugar shaped like a curly fry and cooked on an open flame to light up hats to the cigarette stand. The whole team was walking through the festival and they had a ska rock band playing obscenely loud. We had a bit of fun there, and they even sung the theme to Cops...Bad Boys Bad Boys.
This morning is was down to business we woke up and had breakfast, Brittany loved the make your own cereal bar, I loved the eggs and meat. We then caught our bus to the race course. We got on the bus and there was another team already there, the Iranian team. Turns out that they were incredibly nice, they took some film of us asked us our names and asked to trade jerseys after the event. It was a senior mens only team, but they were extremely nice to all of the women on the bus, showing that they are incredibly progressive (These were the Iranians you never see on TV).
We drove about 15 minutes out of town through a bunch of farm land then there was an opening in the corn and one of the top race courses in all of Europe just appeared (It was like field of dreams only for paddle sports, maybe lake of dreams?). The course is all man made and a straight as can be, there is an island in the middle with cutouts so you can just paddle up on one side and go on to the race course on the other side (Augusta you would have loved it).
It is incredibly intimidating being at an Olympic race course that is just so gorgeous, and perfectly straight. Brittany and I had a mediocre practice, still trying to adjust to new people in the boat. The team had a great overall practice and when we came back to look at film it made us appreciate what we were doing so much more. We are now getting ready to go out and see all that Szeged has to offer, after those 15 minutes are up I think we will bond more with the team:)
Love,
Brittany and Grant
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