Michelle Smith

English, British and European rifle champion Commonwealth Silver Medalist

Hello from snowy Hannover

January 11th, 2010 by

Hey guys

As the title says i’m now in Hanover for a week of indoor training.

This is only a quick blog post as its 12 midnight and we are up for a “warm up” for 7 am.

So here goes:

We arrived safe and sound at Hanover aiport on Sunday night after a nice easy flight even if the plane was a tiny thing with less than 40 seats – I am surprized our rifles and kit actually arrived after I saw the size of the plane!

The flight was about 1hour 30 minutes during which I had planned to watch a film or at least part of one but failed miserably after Pickle “borrowed” it to watch a shooting film, still I didn’t mind really.

Today we have had a good day training.  I was really happy with my prone.  I struggled a little on my standing but theres plenty of time to work on that.

The highlight of my first day in Hanover has got to be the gym… its been a while since i was last in the gym thanks to illness, injury and mostly my bone idle-ness but the session I had this evening really gave me the push I have been looking for and i’m ready for more tomorrow.

Right, i’m off to bed, check back tomorrow for more posts and hopefully a video of the funkyest toilet I have ever seen.

Oh and a message for my mum – not found ice cream or hot chocolate yet but i’m working on it!!! (apparently i always judge a place by its ice cream or hot chocolate (ice cream Dortmund was the winner and Plzen wins for hot chocolate!!!))

Night y’all