Notes from Oberhof

Once again there is a very large field of athletes participating in the race this weekend: 150 or so, from twenty nations.

We had a "Team Captains' Meeting" last night at which the Oberhof organizers came up with something never before attempted: arbitrarily reducing the number of official training runs from seven to six. We fought back and appear to have succeeded. This morning we took two singles runs, and will take two doubles runs tonight.

All the athletes received gifts from the race organizers, things from the race sponsors like toothpaste and shower gel. One present was very ironic, given this cloudy, foggy, windy location: a big container of sunscreen!

I will try to find some decent photos from last week's race and post them soon.