We flew over on Thursday and my 2010 World Championships lead up has begun.
W 3 hours to Sydney, 2 hour stop over, 14 hour flight to Durban, 3hours of being shown where to go by South African guys at airport and then them asking for money and then an hour flight to Pietermaritzburg. The big flight was quite empty, and I spotted a row of 4 seats empty so tried to claim in but some lady sprinted there before me. So had a good time not being able to stretch out and sleep in awkward positions. It wasn’t too bad flight though, could have been a lot worse.

Today we woke up and got our stuff for the day and then headed to the showground’s where the worlds track is. It looks real good, not to big first straight but 2nd straight looks decent.  It’s going to be fun. We went to Golden Casino track after that. It is a fun little track to play around on with long ass straights. We started doing some gates until there were about 5 of us on the gate and it decided not to drop. I committed to the snap and smashed my hip and hand. Bike ended up having 4 spokes snapped and flat tire. Good start to the trip haha, shit happens. We went the Butchers Block for tea, and it is amazing. A 300g Fillet Steak for under 25nz. Probably the best restaurant I have ever been too, sorry bollywood.

Wi-Fi here is 300rand for 3days, something like 60NZ so it isn’t cheap at all, so no internet for me for a bit.

 

Keep you updated on what’s happening.