Made it!

We're here!
We made it safely and everything arrived in one piece including my bike. Off to a good start.

This place is so surreal! Where to start...

We arrived after at our hotel on Friday afternoon after a 10+hr flight, but after sitting around in several airports etc we had been travelling for about 22hr. I was so pumped to actually be in Kona I got changed and headed out for the 80min run from my program: run down Alii Drive.
Wow, what a run! It was about 5pm but still damn hot and very humid. I was sweating before I started running. Five minutes in, Chrissie Wellington rode past in the opposite direction. I recognised her for a bit away and we shard a big grin. Two minutes later Natascha Badmann came past. At the turn I saw Mark Allen running in the opposite direction. A minute later I saw Macca and yelled something at him about looking good for the win again this year, and tried to make it sound as Aussie as possible. He yelled something back that I like to think was a "thanks mate" but was probably telling me get stuffed. Then Normann Stadler ran past..
Half way back to the hotel Macca and Normann both overtook me and they were having a chat together. Awesome!

We have been swimming every morning on the course which is just beautiful. The water is warm and crystal clear. It is impossible to think about your stroke because I'm too busy watching all the tropical fish in the coral below.
We're also done a couple of sessions out on the Queen K to familiarise ourselves with various sections. The wind and heat are indescribable. I had heard about it all from other people but until I experienced it over the weekend, I had no idea how oppressive the heat could be, and how dangerous the wind could be!

There are fit people everywhere strutting and posing, people belting up and down Alii Drive at extreme pace, people rolling around on the hottest bikes and wheels, people doing some very serious training sessions! It's Monday now and the town is really starting to fire up. Everything is busy now compared to Friday, especially Lava Java where we are sitting now. Normann and his team just got up from their morning coffees and left.

Have to go but I will try to post some video and some pics if I can.

We're having the time of our lives over here!! Absolutely awesome!
More soon
Cam