Bring On The Race

Friday was my presentation day which went fine. Not much to say here except that I spent some time worrying about the deck and talk but it went by so fast that it really wasn't worth the worry. The day ended shorter than yesterday as one of our executives had to catach a Kylie Minogue concert that evening. I hear she puts on a good show.

Dave and I swam today which was really cool. The edgeless pool had fantastic views of the countryside, the city of Zurich, the Swiss Alps and the airport. You could also see how very involved the train and trolly system are here as tracks went everywhere and there was always a train coming or going, even though you might not be able to hear them. The pool wasn't really big enough to do real laps but long enough to stretch out a 5-6 strokes if you didn't push off too hard from the wall. The hot tub could have been hotter but then we would have been soup.

So the plan for tonight was to go to dinner at the official race hotel down near Pfäffikon which is the town directly across Lake Zurich from Rapperswill (where the race is on Sunday.) Dave, Emma (one of the Australians) and I decided to take the train down which was as pretty as a train ride could be. Lots of countryside again, with the Swiss Apls in the distance. When our train stopped at the Rapperswil station I got really worried that we took the wrong train because we were on the wrong side of the lake but after the next stop the train went across a bridge and we were in the right place. Don't worry so much! So dinner was at a restaurant called Punto and hosted by Joel from one of our interactive agencies. As usual the food was really good and we met two more cool Auzzies- Liz and Danny. There was an impromptu wine tasting that was really cool but since I don't know wines at all it was wasted on me. I was also trying to take it easy as I had pushed it the first night and was planning on tapering my drinking leading in to Sunday. Man, they enjoy their adult beverages here. I spoke to Jessica on the phone tonight as she was leaving that afternoon to meet me here tomorrow. She sounded really nervous. The cab ride back was almost 150 CHF- good thing we're expensing that.