Right now I am sitting in my London flat chilling out after doing a short second run with Will Leer. Bushy Park is right outside my door and is terrific for running. I'm not sure on its size but is 7-8 miles around the outside and there are dozens of different paths in between. It seems like a popular place to walk dogs and was surprised to see herds of deer roaming around. They seem pretty tame and let you get with a few feet of them.

I arrived yesterday afternoon (local time) after what was one of my better transatlantic trips. My flight itinerary went Eugene to Denver and then Denver to London Heathrow. I can barely get anywhere in the US in two flights out of Eugene but had no problem getting to England. I'm not even sure how long the second flight was. I watched Duplicity (an ok movie) and then was lights out until about 45 min before landing. I was traveling with my coach, Mark Rowland, and Nick Symmonds. Will was arriving an hour before us so we met up with him after customs and rented a car to drive to our flats.

Along the way we were about to enter a round-a-bout when we look to our right and see a city bus driving into the guard rail up over the curb and onto the sidewalk. I was a little confused at first but the we saw the driver was slumped against the window and not conscious at all. Another guy was running to the door and got it open to stop the bus. If he had been going faster we would have been the first car to get hit as we were right in front of it. As we were getting out of the way we could see them getting the driver out of the seat and his arm was twitching pretty violently so we think it must have been a seizure. Hope the poor guy is ok.

After getting the keys to our flats the first thing we did was get groceries. We all have mini kitchens in our flats so will prepare alot of our own food while we're here. At the checkout the guy in front of me forgot his credit card after he paid so the cashier asked me to run him down. He was half a block down by the time I got to him. So less than two hours in London and I've had to be on my toes.

Today we checked out the track at St Mary's, our primary training location and saw Jemma Simpson for the first time in 5 or 6 weeks. i'll just get to do one workout there tomorrow before I head to Lignano, Italy for my first race on Sunday. Most of OTC will be staying here in the same place. I already mentioned Nick and WIll. Geena Gall is also here and the two of us are both going to the Lignano meet and then on to Belgium for a couple races. Early next week several of the other guys will come in. Not sure who but I think 4-5 of them.

I guess we are actually staying in Teddington and Kingston is close by as well. There are several cafes, shops and restaurants around too so definitely some places to see. Hopefully I'll be able to get into downtown and see some of the more tourist type stuff at some point.

I'll have my next blog after I race in Lignano and with any luck, I'll have a video of it too.