I've had a pretty tiring week post Munich World Cup. We got straight back into training but certainly had to tough it out towards the end of the week. As I've mentioned before, your body can react in funny ways after hard races, particularly when racing over a few days. I was in a bit of a bad way, but kept recovering enough to make it to training the next day. There is a strong sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when you're tired and ill but still able to plough on. The light on the horizon was the day off on Sunday, without that I'm sure I would have crumbled quicker than a digestive. Along with training I had two events to attend this week.
On Thursday evening I went straight from training to an O2 employee event at Battersea Park. I've recently taken up an offer from O2 for work experience in their legal team, admin stuff is still going through but I hope to start in the next week or two (more about all this in a later post). The event was for management from all branches of the O2 family, looking towards the next 12 months and how O2 wants to develop in that time. I have found that anyone to do with O2 is unbelievably positive about the company, and from what I can see there is good reason - lots of positive stuff, particularly for customers, will be rolling out over the next few months. I met and spoke to quite a few people, I also joined in the 1 minute ergo challenge that was going on - hopefully I still had the top score at the end of the night (if I didn't then I will look like a right mug). It was particularly good to chat to Ronan Dunne, the CEO at O2, a nice guy with a great knowledge of sport.
On Saturday I had my second event of the week, which was probably my second event of the year come to think about it. After training, I shot across London to the Royal Docks by London City Airport. The Thames Water London Youth Games Regatta (catchy title) is a competition held each year between all the London boroughs as part of the wider Balfour Beatty London Youth Games; points are won for the borough in each event, with an overall borough champion named at the end of the games. I was there with Andy Triggs-Hodge, who is sponsored by Thames Water. While there I met up with Amanda from Atos Origin (who provide a bursary to aid my training to 2012), it was great to chat to her again and will hopefully see her at Henley Regatta this year. Andy and I gave out the medals to the winning crews. Each person celebrates a victory in their own way, some were very smiley and excited to receive the medal; others were more stoic. Every village has it's idiot and every Olympic champion has a super fan. Well Andrew Triggs-Hodge met her in East London on Sat 4th June 2011. I don't know her name, but she won the girl's single scull event. As her win was announced she jumped from the floor (from a cross-legged position, and didn't use her hands!), ran [arms flapping] to the steps of the stage. As she climbed up the steps she squealed to Andy - "Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God, I follow you on Twitter" (with various excitable noises). Andy laughs nervously and the girl nearly collapses with joy. Nearly forgetting her medal, she leaves quicker than she got up there. All in all a good day and a great story for the lads down at Caversham.
Surprisingly, I know a lot of people missed out on Olympic rowing tickets. You can register on http://www.eventeam2012.fr/ before midnight in France (11pm BST) TONIGHT and you will have an exclusive 48 hours from June 13 to buy tickets on a first-come, first-served basis. After the two-day window, the remaining Olympic tickets will be on general sale. This is a genuine website and there is a further article on this on the Telegraph website today.
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