First day in Kiev/Forsta dagen i Kiev

I (Hans) left Gothenburg and Sweden early this morning and after a stop over in Vienna I arrived in Kiev right after lunch. I was met at the airport by Yuri and his assistent. He had parked his car in a park next to airport and after some driving on grass and bike paths we hit the road to downtown. Instead of going to the hotel he took me to the area for the sprint qualification, a forest park centrally located in Kiev. The woods looked nice although the event centre more had the character of a B-meet to be honest. Unfortunately, no one of the Canadians qualified (17th - Pam James was the best result). The hotel we are staying at is not too bad and the local food we have tried has been ok too. Oh, the name of the hotel is by the way Hotel Adria...The weather is Hamilton like (or Selevik warm) - hot and humid and it is supposed to be like that the rest of the week. The organizers have had some problems with the transportations; some runners were even close to miss their start but hopefull will that improve. Tomorrow it is the long qualifier but I'll skip that and check out some relevant terrain for the middle instead.

Det blir nagra rader pa svenska ocksa for de som foredrar det. Jag traffade pa, inte ovantat kanske, PeO Derebrant idag och vi bade tyckte att sprintkvalet hade mer karaktaren av en Hoglands-OL fast med speaker. Men banorna var bra och terrangen var fin och det ar val det viktigaste. Vi fick en intressant bussfard tillbaka fran tavlingarna da var busschauffor, som saknade halften av sina tander och de som var kvar var utav guld, ignorerade enkelriktat, tutade pa allt som gick i kjol samtidigt som han sjong med i gamla Modern Talking hits. Sant som bara hander i Ukraina kanske...