The hotel was within a stones throw of the pyramids and very impressive. After eventually being guided to the restuarant we finally retired to bed at about 3.30am, luckily for Louise and I, there was no women's semi final the next day. We instead awoke in time for the sight seeing tour of the pyramids that the Egyptian modern pentathlon federation had organised. The bus was due to leave at 10.30am. Given the closeness of the hotel to the pyramids, the use of a bus to travel there provided Charlie, Ben and Istvan with a good opportunity for some light hearted betting with Isty coming out as the looser, suggesting the the 200m journey would take us 12mins. The 2minute bus journey was more than worth it. The pyramid are a truely tremendous sight and very astounding to think of how little technology was used to built them.

Feeling ill on the bus

The ride event was good. I had one stop at fence 7 due to a poor turn to the previous fence. I reacted well to the stop and was positive through out the rest of the course and finsihed with a score of 1148. I was lying in 11th place at the start of the run. I set off at a very sedentary pace as I had decided that my be the best idea in order to finish the event and the overal competition. I managed to keep my thoughts positive as I was overtaken by several athletes within the first 500m of the run. As completing 1500m, I was able to begin to pick up the pace without any ill effects and some of the slower runners began to come back to me. I finished the run in a time of 11.21 and in 12th place with a total of 5264. Not a bad result considering the unfortunate illness, but frustrating to think what could have been. Egyptian athlete, Aya Medanay had an impressive competition and was the overal winner with a score of 5628 points.

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