Made It!

After 35 hours of travelling we made it to the hotel at 11 at night barely able to keep our eyes open. We had a much needed sleep and then it was time for our first experience of Polish food. Sausages eggs and a huge variety of cold meats and cheeses with breads – very similar to many other European countries. The was also some not so authentic cereal and yoghurt.

Down to business, it was time to get out in some Polish terrain to see what it was like. We had seen many maps before and seen pictures of the super -fast open forest but we still had to learn more about the tracks, rides, and the green areas. All the maps are really close to Wejherowo so after a short car ride listening to Flight of the Conchords, Nicola Manfriedi and many more on the JWOC CD with some amazing forest flashing by we were at our first training. The terrain here is amazing when coming from New Zealand because there are very few areas with limited runability. In white areas visibility can be up to 300m and the runability is super-fast. Nothing much underfoot to worry about which makes it easy to read the map on the run without tripping on anything. There is also a lot of green on many of the maps representing small trees (less than 2m high) or in some places a different tree that is growing much closer together. In most cases it is best to avoid these areas by using the fast open forest and tracks.

We’ve been having trouble getting the wireless working at the hotel, the reception isn’t good and it only seems to connect if we’re in the bowling alley café (yes our hotel has a bowling alley but the internet doesn’t work…) so hopefully we can get a few more posts up when we get the system working a little better. Watch this space!

Some super fast forest

Our first days training map