After eating breakfast, I caught Michelle Santilhano (Doing the Quintuple) coming in the front doors, just having arrived. We help her up the stairs with her luggage
and bike and walking into her room, find Eileen Steil from Georgia as well as Wayne Kurtz and his support crew from Pittsburgh PA (Rick is in charge of keeping tabs on the Steelers when they play so we don’t lose touch – my wife is a hugh Steeler fan having grown up there). Michelle is currently living in California however South Africa is her turf.We were all to met at 11:50 for transportation to the Hotel Presidente for the Opening Ceremonies, handing out of the race bags and the buffet lunch.
Afterwards we would head to the pool at 4:00 to look over it and the way for the athletes to ride their bikes back to the Parque and the real fun.
I also had the chance to meet Antal Voneki and Ferenc Szonyi of Hungary, Carlos Ochoa of Spain, Stephen Johnson of Canada and of course Yves Beauchamp of Montreal, Quebec. He is the Vice President of IUTA and his brother is here to be the official race photographer.
In all there are eighteen people doing the Deca and six people doing the Quintuple. The Deca athletes have two weeks to complete the events and six days for the Quintuple athletes.
I finished last night typing up the rest of Pre-Race Day Three blog and chatting with Anne-Marie of Quebec City, Montreal who is here with Guy to support him (she is also a trained massage therapist who has a lot of training in sports massage with her style and technique she does) and Irma who is a friend of Denise Andonie (Jorge’s daughter). Irma has been helping out with check in and is waiting around for Yves support crew to get back from the grocery store picking up supplies. There was a mutual attraction between the two so there is a date between them. She is the one I am talking to about Mexican life, the young athletes here at the villa and she is stopping some of them and asking them questions for us. That is where I found out they range in age from 9 years old (he is a wrestler) on up. Another youngster is a weight lifter. You can see teens with road bikes coming and going.
The lights start dimming around 10:00 p.m. inside the courtyard of the Villa and by 11:00 p.m. all the lights are out cept for the two soda machines on the ground floor and small lights along the room walls. This is a good thing as the youngsters are all in their rooms and their noisy styles are quieted. Our room is going to asleep as well.
Night
In all there are eighteen people doing the Deca and six people doing the Quintuple. The Deca athletes have two weeks to complete the events and six days for the Quintuple athletes.
I finished last night typing up the rest of Pre-Race Day Three blog and chatting with Anne-Marie of Quebec City, Montreal who is here with Guy to support him (she is also a trained massage therapist who has a lot of training in sports massage with her style and technique she does) and Irma who is a friend of Denise Andonie (Jorge’s daughter). Irma has been helping out with check in and is waiting around for Yves support crew to get back from the grocery store picking up supplies. There was a mutual attraction between the two so there is a date between them. She is the one I am talking to about Mexican life, the young athletes here at the villa and she is stopping some of them and asking them questions for us. That is where I found out they range in age from 9 years old (he is a wrestler) on up. Another youngster is a weight lifter. You can see teens with road bikes coming and going.
The lights start dimming around 10:00 p.m. inside the courtyard of the Villa and by 11:00 p.m. all the lights are out cept for the two soda machines on the ground floor and small lights along the room walls. This is a good thing as the youngsters are all in their rooms and their noisy styles are quieted. Our room is going to asleep as well.
Night
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