UK Qualifiers and Team Building

After Hyere I flew straight home ready for an Olympic team building session in North Wales. On the way up I met with a few of the other guys to go mountain biking, we stopped at Coed y Brenin which is a wicked mountain bike centre. The team building was at Plas Menai a great out door centre on the Menai Straights.

We started the first day with pico sailing and a regatta. I was teamed with Richard Langdon so while racing we were also official camera boat. We won the first two races before Richard stepped off. With most of the sailors determined to stop me making a clean streak of wins, it was Leigh Mcmillan that pulled my boom off and broke my Kicker!!!! After starting a little late with a broken boat and no kicker i pulled back to 4th to win overall. The rest of the time was mixed between class room sessions and a few more outdoor activities, gorge walking which was great fun and a pole jump which involved jumping off a large pole to try and touch a ball 30ft off the ground while harnessed up.

On Thursday I went to a Volvo track day at Rockingham Speedway. It was a mix of fun and education, after the unveiling of the beautiful new XC60 I was taken round a track by a racing driver and scared to death. I then had a go at drifting on a skid pan which was so much fun. It was pretty amazing to see the difference between traction control on and off and how the driver aids help you keep the car on the road.

At the weekend i was in North Wales again for the Laser Qualifier in Pwllheli, Three first places on Saturday meant that i only needed to do well in the first race on Sunday to win. A third in the first race was good enough to win the regatta with race to spare. I still sailed the last race before rushing ashore to go mountain biking again at Coed y Brenin. I drove to south Wales and stayed in Swansea for two more days riding to get some extra hours of fitness in the bag and some different riding before heading home to Weymouth.

I have a few days training now at home before another Qualifier this weekend and of to China next week.

With less than 100 days to the games its getting ever closer

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