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This years euro-cycle was fairly spread out with camping a ten minute ride form
the main hall and the hockey hall a ten min ride the other direction, the woods
rally started somewhere else again and the run-fun seemed to be all over town.
Morfelden is a uni friendly town tho with biuke paths and quiet roads linking
all these places so it didn’t matter that I kept forgeting to ride on the
“wrong” side of the road ( I’m from the UK OK). The camp site was small and full
on friday evening, then on saturday more people showed up…making it an
unfesably crowded site, I’m just glad there were no cooking stove accidents or
droped cig butts. The site was prety noisey, what with a years worth of gossip
to catch up on, a nude foot ball game one night, an alarm clock try out another
night and trine hone ringing at 5am. Then there were the planes…we were only a
few km from the runways of a major airport, and the planes came directly over
head from anbout 5.30 am every 10 - 20 minutes. Breakfast on the campsite was an
excellent idea, the Morfelden club laid on a buffet breakfast for those as got
up early enough and brought their own dishes, a good way to start the day. Food
was avalible all day at the main hall thanks to the parents of the club, their
efferts with the BBQ, chips, cakes and coffe were much appreiated and good value
even if we did have to use pre bought tokens to avoid having cash at the BBQ
area. Even at the Hockey hal, filled rols and cake were on sale and there was a
free soft drink on tap most of the time at the two main sites.
On the whole the spread out nature of it all worked, but we were lucky with the
weather, only one sharp down pour for half an hour or so. People did have to
make choices about what they wanted to do and some things clashed with Hockey (
hence I didn’t do either the woods ralley or the run-fun) but thats the nature
of a hockey tornament as part of another event. With out the choices it would
just be another hockey tornament and not so many people would enjoy the weekend.
I never did find out where the offical race would have been run as it was
cancelled, an un-offical time trial took place on the cycle path to the hockey
hall instead. I’m still not sure why the offical race was canceled…as I say my
german is not too good and realitively little “rules” info was printed in
English when we arrived on friday. Eventully I saw an english rules for
fun-cycle on the sunday evening, after the fun-cycle events had finished…It
was a little difficult for the 60 or so non-german speakers to fathom out what
was going on at times, some of the Danish kids were very bewildered and the race
was something they had been looking forward to as the rules are pretty obvious,
a-b in fastest time.
There was plenty of gym space for free riding, and it never seemed crowded. My
mini giraffe made lots of new friends, I learnt a new trick - under the leg nose
picking- and finally got somewhere with wrong foot one footing. I also watched
amazed as peolle shot up and down the hall gliding and coasting, hopped around
with feet on wheel spining the sadddle around as they did so… the skill levels
around were stunning to my untutored mind. At this rate I’ll spend unicon
picking my jaw up from the ground.
thats it for now folks sarah
