Road Cycling rehearsal and Evacuation

Rehearsal and Technical Check of the Road Cycling. One thing that we are used to is refueling the airplanes. What we are not used to is refueling the motorcycles – especially on air… But this happened today. We had to send the 3 motorcycles off the course onto the public road to find a shell service station, with 3 helicopters; and a fixed wing plane. Reminds me of that old BP add where they have the train, 747, care and motorcycle going to an outback service station… Did I forget to say that the motorcycles were driven by Spanish who basically do not speak english. And They had passengers with video cameras. Dressed up in racing suits as used in the Tour De France race.

Unfortunately we did not get to see the live video of this… Just as they were preparing to go, we evactuated since there was a fire alarm. 2 floors down we found out later someone had burned some cheese on toast… The fire brigade came and everything… Just at the wrong time. At least we were not going to air at the time. Oh, and at the same time we were trying to re-fuel another helicopter at the same time.

After work I went over to the Stadium and ran into one of the women there from the church who is working in the stadium – who told me about all the problems at the venue for food retailing… I am glad I am not working there. I got to the Stadium by actually running from where I parked my car, or running much of the way… I must have looked strange to the spectators in busses that saw me running in jeans and polo shirt – at least I was wearing joggers.