Training is over, its racing time!

Today is a huge milestone for us, it is our last night in Szolnok, Hungary. After a 3 week camp here the four of us are leaving tomorrow for a weekend break at Lake Balaton, Hungarys version of the KZN south coast! After 3 weeks of pushing to the max each day its time to rest up and recover for the big race. We did some race practise today and things are on track with some encouraging times. Our waiting is over, four years of training is now going to take effect to have us 100% ready for racing at the Olympics. We spend Monday night in Budapest at Csepel Canoe Club where we spent 5 weeks between racing world cups through June. From there we fly out for the last time from the Feryhegy airport on route to Beijing. We fly via Istanbul, Dubai to Beijing, arriving on Wednesday Im sure rather tired and jet lagged. But very exciting is the fact that we get to move directly into the village. The rest of team SA is currently in a holding camp in south Korea and they only get to move into the village 4 days before they race. Due to our equipment demands and the need for a 1000m course to train on we are the lucky ones who get to experience both the opening and closing ceremonys. I must say after months of waiting it was suddently weeks away and now all of a sudden we have just days to go! What seemed so abstract and unreal for so long is now building up inside with all sorts of emotions attached! Im keen to race, excited to see how I can do and nervous as all hell! Bring it on!