Europe and Jet Lag…….
The flight from Montreal to Frankfurt was quite good over-all and we arrived in Frankfurt as planned at 8am. The car rental process was the best ever and we were off and driving by 10am. We traveled 2 ½ hours to Nuremberg and the Adidas factory / campus. It is so no nice this year to go directly to the factory and have our suits fitted and sewn directly by the people at Adidas. Normally it is me and my sewing machine for a few hours while I adjust the fit of the suit. I think the patterns are all based on Bobsledder bodies – to get the right length of suit I have to deal with way to much over-all volume of the suit. So, I end up re-sewing every seam just to get a god fit. Ah well, the price of speed…. J. The bag of clothing and outerwear we received from Adidas was very generous as usual and I am very grateful for their support. It is quite something to be given an entire duffel bag full of free apparel. No Red in our jackets, but if that’s the only whiny complaint I can muster then it must be pretty good.
We spent 2 days at the factory and area shopping and resting. Oh, there was also the water sliding……. The staff decided to close the slide 15 minutes early because of our ‘enthusiasm’ but what do you expect when there is a slide with a timer for time trials and a group of speed junkies!? We had a blast to say the least – tube rides, mass start races, time trials, 6 person chains, and a lot of laughs. Probably the most fun I have had on tour for 10 years.
Now it is 4 days in Baden Baden recovering and training at the mineral baths and then off to Winterberg on Monday for training on Tuesday. Then it all begins……