gavIN USA - Day 1

Day 1

It would have been easier for me to get into Heaven past St Peter than onto the Continental flight at Edinburgh Airport. There was a lot of questions and peeping at me from around a curtain (!?).

When asked for the 3rd time in the space of 40mins

“Has anyone given you anything since you entered the airport?”

I replied

“the muffin man over there in Costa Cafe gave me this Blueberry treat”.

It didn’t go down too well. I was able to walk on however and repeated in a low voice

“the Muffin man, the muffin man . . . .”

I found it funny and chuckled to myself all the way down the gang way, eventhough at the same time I knew I was a pratt.

Saw The Statue of Liberty and then The White House within the space of 3 hours.

Attempted to read USA Today and understand Baseball. Struggled.

Asked on the flight for some fruit or something healthy instead of the chicken and melted cheese sandwich - was brought a sachet of tomato ketchup and a bag of crisps - the crisps were “lite” and the sachet’s contents was made from real ‘te mate oes’ ?

Ate the chicken and melted cheese sandwich.

Arrived at the race hotel thinking I was booked in - I was not - after taking the huff I was allowed a room at a ridiculous rate.

Tried to sleep.

Can’t.

Tired and grumpy but full of joy

My week so far:

Categories: training and racing week, travel, week that was

Tags: continental airlines, statue of liberty, the white house, training diary, triathlete travel, triathletes training diary

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