Imagine our delight when a very chic Italian restaurant opened four hundred meters from our hotel here in
Unfortunately I woke at eleven pm feeling a little queasy, the queasiness rapidly escalated to full blown nausea, followed by very violent projectile vomiting. Since I have only been sick a few times in my life you can imagine how sick I must have been. In total I only got a few hours of sleep.
Friday morning came as it always does and I was not feeling at my best to say the least. Fortunately my qualification runs were not until the afternoon so I went to the course relying heavily on Kelly’s support to get me there and watched the C-1s first run. James had a solid morning and finished in a strong 10th place. I learned that I was not the only person who ate at the Italian restaurant who got food poisoning, one of the Australians and a Suisse competitor also fell ill. I then returned to the hotel and went back to bed to try and find some strength for the afternoon.
I was still feeling really tired and achy with a swooning stomach for first runs and just cruised it down the course. The times were extremely tight and I was happy to still be in the top 30 sitting in 25th place. I felt a little worse for second runs and again just tried to survive and was a little quicker moving up to 17th. John Hastings had a very good day finishing in 13th but Pierre unfortunately had a 50 to drop him out of the qualifying top 40.
Now my focus is rest and recuperation, lots of fluids and sleep. I know that I should eat but the thought of food right now is not sitting to well. I have a rest day tomorrow with semis and finals on Sunday. I will cheer on James as he races for another top ten and lay as low as possible in the hopes of finding some form for Sunday.
No more pasta for a while.
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