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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Quick "HI" from Moscow

Greetings everyone!
We've made it to Moscow!!! Sorry for the lack of news, but this is the first time I got to the internet in about a week. We've successfully crossed Poland, Belarus, and entered Russia. I visited Auschwitz in Poland, had some interesting night runs in Belarus, and today took some professional BPR pictures at the Red Square in Moscow (check the www.blueplanetrun.org website in a few days for those). It's getting a little harder, but you know me... nothing I can't handle. Today I ran my 10miles on a busy highway some 30miles away from Moscow. Police car was right behind me, shielding me from the trafic (normally we don't have police escorts, but in Belarus and so far in Russia the local authorities insist on it). I am not sure what the internet connections will be like from now till Japan, but I'll try my best to check-in every few days if possible. Okay, I need to go to bed now so that I can get up at 5am (in 4 hours) for our 9am-3pm shift. I think I am running first on our team Silver, thus I should be hitting the pavement for my 10miler at 9am. Water is life, and life is good in Russia.

2 comments:

Dáša said...

Ahoj Davide,
je to až neskutečné vidět Tě na Rudém náměstí. Jsi nejchytřejší z rodiny "byl jsi v Rusku".
Pusu posílá
mamča

David said...

Ahoj!
Ano, musim priznat je byt na Rudem namesti vyvolalo zvlastni pocity. Ale k Praze se Moskva teda vubec neda porovnat. Cimrman by o Moskve asi rekl: "No je to hezky, ale ze bych to musel videt dvakrat..."
Zdravim z Kazane!
-David