23rd Aug -Departed Edinburgh.
Excited, nervous, the unexpected, stress and really happy are only a few words that can describe how I was feeling.
Booked a Taxi from mine and collected Euan on the way to the airport. We checked in with a lady who's mum had ran with the torch at Edinburgh Castle. Pretty cool.
Check in and security went really smooth and had time to grab a coffee before boarding the flight to Birmingham.
Before boarding the flight I bought some stickers for my London 2012 sticker book! Addicted… 1st pack I opened had Mr David Beckham and Chris Hoy! Amazing 🙂 it was going to be a good day. Haha.
The cabin crew on board the FlyBe flight were so excited for us. Asking us questions and offering us champagne. Unfortunately we couldn't accept…on the way back… Maybe! 😉
JB picked Clarky,Euan,Tasty and Billy up plus all of our bags. We then drove to loughbrough to get checked into our hotel. Had a bit of lunch (which was really lovely and healthy). I had chicken, salad and a bread roll. Tasty 🙂
After lunch the Girls team headed over to kitting out. We were welcomed by friendly, happy volunteer staff.
To start us off we watched a short intro video. It had Clive Woodward, Stella McCartney and Mark Hunt telling us about the kit and how the day was going to plan out.
Our first stop was Next. Next was in charge of supplying the opening and closing outfit… At this moment in time I can't spill anything on what this is. But all I can say is that I love it and I think when all of team GB wear the outfits it's going to look amazing!
We had our own personal assistant, own dressing cubical and our own rail with our names on. Felt very Sex and the City esk. Any alterations that were needed we're done there and then. 🙂
Next we headed down to the Adidas kit. The Men's team were just getting started with there into video.
Yet again we met our very own kitter outers and off we went went. I started with the podium track suit. Nice place to start. Then walked around for a couple of hours trying on t-shirts, track suits, jumpers, hats, sunglasses, trainers, flip flops and jackets. Nice job Stella! The kit is lovely.
Last stop was the competition specific room where we got kitted out with all of our under armer kit and our Adidas judo belt.
The best bit about this room was that it involved a photo booth. One by one or two by two we entered the booth with different props, clothes and cushions. Had 4 different poses to do.
We then picked one photo to have in the Team GB book and had chance to write a little message and sign.
Some really funny photos from the girls…well done girlies. Nutters haha.
Once we had finished messing around, we headed down to the Mix zone where we had a couple of photos and short interviews.
At the end of this expirence with had our hand and foot print scanned. Every GB athlete that has done the kitting out day have had this done. (That's a lot of hands and feet!)
After this I headed down stairs to pick up all of my next and Adidas kit. My two little helpers …. And ….. Checked my kit over with me and packed it all up put it on a airport trolley ready to transport back to the hotel!
In total the kitting out expirence to about 5 hours!! 5 hours of trying on clothes! Cool 🙂
We got so much! Thank you to all the volunteers and staff that made the day a enjoyable day & wicked expirence. Also a big thank you to Stella McCartney for designing a very cool kit and lastly to team GB for everything.
After dinner. Clarky and I sorted all of our kit out. Taking t-shirts out of packets, chucking boxes away and moving kit form one bag to another. This took ages. But got there in the end.
24th Aug
Had a team meeting at 9:15 for a group photo. The sun was shinning and we were all trying not to sweat in our full track suits. Everyone was looking the part in their new gear.
10:30 we all got on a big coach with all of our kit.
On the coach I caught up with my dad and mum on the phone as I didnt have a chance to to talk to them yesterday. It was good to catch up! Also this three hour coach journey has given me chance to start my blog 🙂 …. Next stop The Village!
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