Day 2 in London and it was supposed to be a busy one with team\u00a0briefings,\u00a0 race registration, equipment checks, a possible bike course recce and bike racking. We were hoping to fit some sight-seeing in as well.\u00a0Luckily I had managed to register the day before so that was one less thing to do.<\/p>\n
We left the hotel after breakfast and headed to Hyde Park for the team briefing. I met up with Roger (who I had met out in Turkey earlier in the year) and also bumped into Dylan and his family. The race briefing was over with pretty quickly which was good. I didn’t learn anything in it that I didn’t already know, but it was worth going just for the silly questions at the end. I do wonder sometimes if the people asking these questions have actually done a triathlon before, and I’m\u00a0obviously\u00a0not the only one to think that as someone jokingly put their hand up at the end and said “Can I just check the format, it is swim first, then bike, then run\u00a0isn’t it?!”<\/p>\n
With that out of the way and no registration to take care of we had most of the day for some sightseeing so jumped on the Tube and popped up not far away at Westminster. Anna and I had never been here before and Morgan had wanted to see Big Ben – or at least the tower that houses Big Ben. We were surprised to find it right there as we exited the tube station, with Westminster Bridge above us and the London Eye on the opposite side of the river. We hadn’t realised it was all so close together, which meant that our sight-seeing for the day would be easy!<\/p>\n\n\t\t