One thing I learned a lot about while writing during Adelaide was timezone conversion. With the Asian Games underway this weekend, we get to put what we learned from Adelaide into practice. The moral of the story is that the action at the Asian Games will start each day during the night in North America. Here is a quick Wednesday jog report from Terri Imspon.
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The slippery jog strip
From Terri:
Everyone made it thru the jog with just a couple of holds. The temperature has dropped suddenly and the wind was quite brisk today–we were very thankful for our blazers and looked with sympathy at the short pencil skirts that Hong Kong was jogging in–Brrrr! We had our Team cross country walk with Kim as Wednesday warmed up. As I said in my last report, the time is going to be tough to make, although it is a short course. The narrow lanes, turns and combination are going to definitely eat up time.
Funny enough I asked Kim about making the time on such a twisty course yesterday; the wind was blowing and there was a tractor dragging the ring, so I couldn’t hear very well and she said “Like David says, ‘Land over the fence on a straight line and get your right boob on the rope, then your left boob on the rope.'” She was so serious I didn’t dare question her, but as I was riding later I realized she said “BOOT!” We had a good laugh later.
The water complex is interesting, it’s an A,B,C,D,E… with bowl shaped round waters and the footing sucks a bit at your feet. It’s a small canoe in, through the first pond up on a small pimple over a canoe, down into the second pond and out over a triple narrow brush. A lot of the fences are fairly upright including the double corners at the end of the course and they are set on a half stride. The option there doesn’t look too time consuming and is much more straight forward. Dressage starts at 12:00 tomorrow and I think we are all eager to get on with the show, we have been in transit for three weeks!
