So I haven't been able to update the website at all because the company who does my site is currently updating their software (great timing).
We arrived yesterday afternoon in the athletes village after about 21 hour of travel.
Processing in DC went pretty smoothly. I met the US Futsal (indoor soccer with a mini-ball) Team as well as members of the Tennis team and Modern Pentathlon (swimming, running, shooting, horseback riding, and fencing).
Once we arrived, we jumped on a bus at the airport and were escorted via police escort to the athlete's village (pretty cool). Once at the village, we received our credentials and housing assignments. The village consists of ten apartment complex buildings, ten stories tall, each consisting of eight, three bedroom apartments on each floor!!! The USA athletes are all in buildings 9 and 10.
The village has an " international zone" where the HUGE dining hall is, as well as a bank and some shops. They have a huge television streaming the competition live. The food is average. The worst part is finding the right time to eat. With a couple thousand athletes, lines can get long and the servers aren't necessarily too fast!
Took a bus to the practice throwing field today, which is located about 45 minutes east of the village on a military base. The track is right beside the ocean and right at the base of sugar loaf, which is a huge, and i mean huge, rock! Had a little javelin lesson from our throws coach Tom Pukstys (former American Record Holder who's thrown over 86m!) It was productive and hopefully I can transfer a thing or two from today into Tuesday's throws!
It's been tough to find the time to get online here, but I"ll do my best to update more a little later!
We arrived yesterday afternoon in the athletes village after about 21 hour of travel.
Processing in DC went pretty smoothly. I met the US Futsal (indoor soccer with a mini-ball) Team as well as members of the Tennis team and Modern Pentathlon (swimming, running, shooting, horseback riding, and fencing).
Once we arrived, we jumped on a bus at the airport and were escorted via police escort to the athlete's village (pretty cool). Once at the village, we received our credentials and housing assignments. The village consists of ten apartment complex buildings, ten stories tall, each consisting of eight, three bedroom apartments on each floor!!! The USA athletes are all in buildings 9 and 10.
The village has an " international zone" where the HUGE dining hall is, as well as a bank and some shops. They have a huge television streaming the competition live. The food is average. The worst part is finding the right time to eat. With a couple thousand athletes, lines can get long and the servers aren't necessarily too fast!
Took a bus to the practice throwing field today, which is located about 45 minutes east of the village on a military base. The track is right beside the ocean and right at the base of sugar loaf, which is a huge, and i mean huge, rock! Had a little javelin lesson from our throws coach Tom Pukstys (former American Record Holder who's thrown over 86m!) It was productive and hopefully I can transfer a thing or two from today into Tuesday's throws!
It's been tough to find the time to get online here, but I"ll do my best to update more a little later!
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