TEAM USA: Beating Jetlag, Tuning Up

Wind Farm with Coach Preston Quick Looking on. Photo 2006 © Chris Smith .

Palmerston Time- Thurs July 13

We woke up this morning to a great breakfast at the hotel and a morning practice session at SquashGym. We are all well rested and right on the local time table. After a couple hours of drilling and playing and some massages, the team took the rest of the day to relax and do some final catch up on the jet lag.

The boys wanted to relax in the hotel with some trivial pursuit battles and time on the PS2. Preston and I tried with no success to get the boys to go exploring with us.

Unfortunately for the boys, Preston and I saw some amazing things. We drove out of Palmerston through some tight roads around the Manawatu River up to the southern hemisphere's largest wind farm. The field of 55 enormous wind turbines generates enough clean, sustainable electricity to meet the annual needs of over 45,000 Kiwi homes. These
turbines are enormous and when standing next to one, they make some serious noise.

Friday we have two practices set up with three days left before the tourney starts.