After a really nice 3 days which finished with a lovely dinner at Palatina's restaurant ...Italian Pizzeria, with my friends Alia Cardinale, Riccky Lisk , ending Tours- 3rd Grand Prix 2010.

Im heading back to Davos, Switzerland for my last " push up" (block of training) before the Grand Final...BUDAPEST...

During this Petit trip i had met with diffrent kind of people that left me something special in my heart and mind. I can not tell you now what it is that..

when i started my trip i was not very happy at all because i did not want to change my training routine in Davos, and do 20hrs trip for just 1 hr race. However i realized that i was a bit negative about it and inflexible because a break from routine, sometimes it is a great feeling for your mind and for the coming up challenge

Basel i travel on friday lunch time heading to Basel the city of one of the greater building i had never seen.So magic and so pure.....

During my trip over there i met with two nice persons. One on the train and then one on the Goethenum's Library, both guys the Initial letter start with M....As well i saw a grant Dad travelling with her grant daughter whose were setting in front of me during my train from Davos- Kloster. It was something that aware me because i love how he was teaching her, sort of life's lesson and she was so concentrate and listen to him with absolute quietest . I felt that this kind of thing does not happened any more. Actually the bridge between the old generation and the new ones is getting bigger and bigger and no one really care how rich is the Grant parents knowledge.

Finally after stayed over night in Basel i got 16hrs at Tours, France....A Petit Castle town.....

A new member of the Montpellier team was there Liz Blatchford from U.K. A great athlete which make the team a lot more stronger.

Nice pre race Dinner as usually finishing with a Chocolate Tart.....wow really god....( see the photo attach hahaha ;)

Morning swim as a w/up breakky , laid for a bit and ready to rock and roll.

Dry land w/ up because the air temperature was quite freezer and the water temperature 23ºC.

Montpellier called on 4th place next to chaterouxe team....400m againts the current turn 25m and then 300m down the river,turn on the last buoy and 25m to get to exit. I know that you must to deal a lot with the hiting and flight for you spot on the water, however grasp your hand while you are swim is something that i find really unfair-play. Any way the think is to deal with it and move forward, grown up a little bit more from this experience....

I got out from water closing the 1st pack, however i had to do a quite fast transtition to get back on the pack.....It was a extremely hard 3km where i was chasing the tail of the 1st pack. I got there but never felt great. It was a really tricky course, with a lot of hole and bump so i was glad to finish the bike's leg, because i know that i ll be much safeter....

T2 i was a bit back on the pack so I exited the T2 around 6 place with Andrea Hewitt (Rank n2 in the WCS) about 10-20m in front of me. After 1.5k we close the bridge with Erin Densham and three of us where on the leader. Straight behind us where Vicky, U.K (beauvais's Team as Andrea Hewitt) and a couple of meters back the chasing girls.

Finally on the last section we drop Erin and Vicky. Just Andrea and I were in the leader. A bit bumped and unstableness grass it was the final 1km where i tried to change a bit the rhythm but did not work, Andrea was right next to me.

On the Final corner before to head to the last straight Andrea boosted and took first the last corner, and Chicka with her best kicked tried to get back to her..... (have a look the photo. It reflected my expression of doing ......?) hahhaah ;)

OKAY DEAR SPECIALIZED'S MATES HAHAHHA

Keep well AND enjoy life

all the best

with Love Crazy's Beatles chicka ....."C'on baby for Budapest Sept 12 at 14hrs"