Budapest!!

Szia!
We've been here in Budapest for a day now and it is really different to anything i have really experienced before. Everything here is extremely old, which is pretty awesome. Just about every street is photo material and the parliament building is spectacular!
Driving into the city was a bit of an eye opener, looked like a scene from a movie with slum areas. Most of the shops look like the stock has been there for 5 years or more, not a particularly interesting shopping scene. All the warnings about the thieves here were proved correct at the airport with a near to first hand experience, one of the Canadian age groupers got their bike box taken and had to chase down the guy, sort of scary really.

Training the last week has been a bit up and down, i ended up getting sick and had 3days of absolutely nothing. I missed out on the team race simulation which i was really disappointed about and the day trip to Constance also had to be given a miss. From there it has been a slow build up back to feeling normal but i'm starting to feel good again. A less than ideal build up but that's life and at least it isn't this week, no time to dwell on that kind of thing. Running has been not bad, legs have been a little average but apparently that is a good thing they don't want to be firing quite yet.
There were still some hard miles put in and that was the main thing not a lot can really happen between now and the race.
First day of training here in Budapest and the cycling is rubbish, it is near impossible to get any sort of a training ride in due to all the traffic and traffic lights around. Our 20k ride today took us over an hour so looks like we'll be on the indoor trainer till the race. The training facilities here definitely go against the old nature of the city the pool we trained in this morning was awesome and it was only the warm up pool for the swimming complex.

ITU released the start list with everyones numbers today and i drew 74th all the other guys seem quite far down as well but it's all a much of a muchness as we're not ranked so we don't get to choose our start positions on the pontoon. There are 79 in the race so i'll be on one of the sides.

That's it for now hopefully i'll be onto it enough to write another post before the big day but if not wish me luck