Day Two - Aug 3

It's time to get down to business. The competition and training venue for canoeing is in Shun Yi, a 50 minutes bus ride from the Olympic village. As we made our trip up North, I noticed that China has set up special lanes for cars/buses conducting Olympic business. All along the route were hung banners proclaiming “One World, One Dream”.

I'm glad all my worries were for nothing. It didn't take much effort to locate Guam's assigned canoe. Sean was estactic to find a brand new Nelo C-1 waiting for him on the Guam rack. Because it would be impractical to travel back and forth between the village and the training venue, we essentially were 'stuck" there for the entire day. Fortunately, we were assigned a room to store equipment and for chilling between training sessions. On site, there were also weight rooms and some training machines. I made a mental note to try them.

The site is enormous. I would have to rent a bike to be able to follow along Sean's training.

The first day of training was cut short, as we need to hurry back to the Village for a Team Guam lunch.

Gordon, our chef de mission, treated us to lunch outside the village. It is a place noted for handmade noodles. I have only seen noodles made one way. Here, we were treated to four ways. The food was excellent.