Hi all,
I arrived safely after not such a bad flight, Gooldy (Matthew Goold ed.) and I scamed a emergency exit so we had leg room to spare.
Korea....first impressions....not good....the polution and streets were really bad, almost died 4 times on the drive to the airport...but we made it eventually. The polution made your chest hurt after our first training ride...it was shocking....
But then, we woke up this morning and could finally see further than 100m from our windows. Nice country it turns out. Streets are still dodgy but you can deal with it. We are being well taken care of and the accomodation is pretty good.
My first race....1.4km tricky little prologue....I rode a 136.0 which would have won it last year, we dont know the results yet, but im pretty sure it will get me top 5, so im pretty wrapped. Karl Menzies rode a tad faster than me we think, so the team is in a good position. We are all pretty happy with how we went. I'll find out the results later tonight or tomorrow but look on the mgzt website and it might say: www.teammgzt.com.
Pumped for the rest of the tour now, bring it on...
I have no mobile reception here so dont bother trying to call, not sure why....I'm at a bakery now, which has email so thats how im doing this, but tomorrow the tour takes us out of town so not sure how I'll go for email then. If worse comes to worse then I'll be back here later in the week and will contact you again then.
Hope all is well in Melbourne. It was 39 here today so I'm warm...rug up you lot...
I'll speak to you soon
later
Richard