ordinary old day

Cool again this morning with team leaving for the course in team track suits as opposed to tee shirts and shorts. In fact Martin said he was freezing standing on the bank and wants a team hoodie for next time!! He said the wind whistled down the neck of his track suit jacket - Pavel just smiled, as he does. Another big adventure to the supermarket - only took 5 staff to help find 'curry powder' today and the key word was
'India' in the end - its become almost another version of 'the amazing race' for the staff in the supermarket , they recognise us now and you can see them either run for cover or start to giggle ... then the charades and mimes begin ... Pavel has written us a cheat sheet of key meat words in Czech which is a bit helpful because its almost slovakian .... we show it around and combined with the mimes and noises we manage to get something to buy, not sure half the time what it actually is, pretty sure tonights minced meat wasn't beef - (don't tell your kids). The Australians are back from their few days training in Krakow, the Germans and Chinese and Russians have arrived and also 30 paddlers from Czech Republic. Martin and Pavel have gone out tonight to have tea with them. The British have a military operation going (not Dads Army either) and are always very flash in their turn out, paddling gear - all matching - spray skirts and life jackets matching and their team casual uniform all matching and impeccable - however we have Matthew, with his KIWI boat.

Kiwis in action

Dads Army - Captain Mannering and Wilson - Just joking, we are very impressed and these guys were so nice to pose for us

padding out and keading up Deahnas new boat

now its wet and second hand .....

flat water training - sprints, looking down the dry, right side course in the distance

one on one sprints, Tommy v Marcus

Deahna's new boat arrived and she spent time under the shelter of the new building padding it out and adding Kead-it to the ends to protect it from the Liptovsky stones. Flat water training this afternoon at the top of the course, split into two groups doing short sprints, gates and 360 turns.

 Accreditation has opened, all the teams tents are up and the first provisional start lists have been posted on the notice board. There are 63 boats in K1W U18:, 84 in K1M U18: 67 in C1M U18: 29 in C2 U18: 53 in K1W U23: 86 in K1M U23: 58 in C1M : 

Its now getting hard to get a car park near the old boat house especially in our big vans and we are wondering where they are going to put all the race car parking now that they have filled the car park with the teams Marquee.

Very hungry and cold kids arrived in from paddling at 6pm tonight - rain was threatening again so its a big rush to get a space to hang their gear under the veranda of the building. Big tea followed by a bit of a sauna for some of the boys. Hope this sends them to sleep early ...

steamy sauna - foggy camera - Marcus, Dan, Patrick