Canoe Slalom NZ Junior & U23 Teams

At 5am I had been wide awake for over an hour so I climbed the hill behind out hotel and took in the sunrise. After breakfast at 7 we headed to the course where not much was happening yet so we went up the river to a boat launch area and did a session of 30 second sprints. Dale videoed it all so we watched it back just after lunch. Dale and I popped to the hardware store and then the team spent 15 minutes making 6 gates. We then went to a little place I used to train at and put the gates up in about 15 minutes and had a good little session of short courses.
America is currently sweltering in record temperatures so we almost feel luck that it's only about 35 degrees here.
We're all pretty settled and happy now and looking forward to a good nights sleep and the water being turned on at the course in a couple of days.
I just asked the team for some highlights. Many said this afternoons session was great and it was great to get the gates up. One highlight was watching the poor drunk guys crossing the small walking bridge we were training next to. One crashed his bike straight in to the bridge. Another guy kindly offered to help Ben "I'll help man, I'll jump in, just ask me!!".
I forgot to mention. when we picked up our rental we looked at the nice van we had ordered and it had good racks so we went in a did the paperwork. When we came out it had changed colour and lost the racks. We went back inside to explain the problem and the lady said "You can't put anything on the roof". Anyway, we looked at each other and looked back at her and said that was fine then, we'll just take the 4wd instead and of course we won't put anything on the roof.........