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4/4/08 - Weekend of Championships
It isn’t often you get to see two different World Championships in one weekend, but then again when its two sports that only myself and about 20 other people care about then maybe it isn’t that rare. Headed out Friday afternoon for an all day drive down to Manchester England for the World Track Cycling Championships. Getting there was an adventure. 6 hours to get from Aberdeen to Manchester, then another hour for us to navigate the center of the city and find the hotel. Word of advice to anyone ever coming over to the UK to visit.... don’t try and drive in the downtown of any major city. Oh yeah, it was pouring rain the whole drive too. The racing was amazing. I won’t go into any detail because I can see I am already boring most people.
That evening we headed to Edinburgh for the World Cross Country Championships that was happening on Sunday. Again, won’t even go into who was racing and who won. In case you didn’t guess it was someone from an African country... nope not a Kenyan, but an Ethiopian.
Decided to test my photography skills and rented a monster professional lens for my camera. Got a few ok pictures. Just because I had a huge lens didn’t make me any good. Though I did stand tall and laugh at all the people with tiny lenses.
World Track Cycling Championship Pictures
World Cross Country Championship Pictures
All in all it was a great weekend with good friends.
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