Frikedeller - Danish Meat Balls

We are writing this post from the kitchen of the Bramming's in Odense. For those of you who don't know, Maja Bramming is Ross' girlfriend. We just had an uber sweet lunch of frikedeller and are about to leave to go to the Vestjydsk 2-dags where we will be running in the sprint at about 7pm danish time. The weather has been really warm and sunny, and at the moment its the same. Hopefully it stays this way. The team are pretty excited to race tonight with the Ross tip of the day being "when your not reading your map, read your map". The sprint race will be around a town with some parks and alleys and things. Carsten says it is quite hilly so should be a hard sprint.

Where the races are take some travelling from our early training base at the Tisvilde club house. We started at about 10am this morning travelling by train to meet the two vans. From there we drove around 2 hours on a very fast freeway crossing a massive bridge (see video) to get to Maja's house. We still have another 2 hours to go, but everyone is feeling good, and today we picked up both Jula and Scott (whose luggage is lost).

I am also meant to write about our first encounter with Danish culture. On Wednesday night we went to Mid summer party. This was at the beach where they light a big fire and burn a fake witch. There were heaps of people there as the town we were staying in is known as a holiday destination. At this party we watched the sun go down at 10.30 which everyone thought was very odd. It still didnt get dark for many hours after.

So summing up, everyone is ok and just about adjusted to the time zone, accept Scott who just arrived. We will try and put another post up later today on the race and talk a little about tomorrow.