Made it to Sandhamn....

Beginning of Ferry ride to Sandhamn

Arrived a bit ago to Sandhamn, race start island, via ferry. Got settled in to the hotel and had a pre-race meeting.


Mats Andersson (on left) and Michael Lemmel(on right), race directors, have done an awesome job with making sure things are organized with Ö till Ö.

Picked up our packets with our race singlets and caps. Got our GPS tracking devices, maps and phones that we have to carry. Starting to get "amped" for the race. Gonna be a great and adventorous challenge that is gonna be tough.


Will check back in later....
J

Live Tracking at Ö till Ö

The link to track us live is HERE.
We are Team SOS.

Will blog once I get to the islands this afternoon and get more info on the specifics of the race.

J

Arrived.....

Got into Stockholm around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Met up with Jonas and we went for a nice little 11K run. Stockholm is a cool place.

After our run, went to dinner with Jonas, Bjorn and few other Swedes to a lebanese place. A lot of good convo about the race and what to expect.

Will check in later once I know race specifics in regards to exact website for tracking etc.

God dag!
J

Ö till Ö....links and live tracking

Well, in the airport getting ready to board our flight to Amsterdam which will connect us to Stockholm. The flight is 10hr15min, so not too bad. Before Jeff and I left, Jeff wanted to go to the drug store to get some T.E.D hose for the flight to keep the swelling down. Actually, I think he is the poster boy, here are shot of his nice legs :)



In any case, I have a pair of compression socks and decided it was a good idea, so here we both are in the airport, Jeff with "thigh-high" stockings and me with "knee-highs" on....I am sure if anyone saw them, they wouldn't believe us...."Yeah....sure you guys are going to a race. Are you sure you not heading down to the Red light district to make some money at your layover?" Good thing we are both wearing long pants over them.

If you are interested in following us, we will have a GPS tracking device on us the entire race and you can go to HERE and track us live. We are Team SOS. This was last years link, so not sure if this one will work, but give it a whirl.

The race website is HERE.

You can also follow me on twitter by clicking HERE. I will be posting updates before and after the race. There should be some good pics along the way that I will post there as well. We are meeting Jonas Colting, his team won it last year when we land. Should be good times.

Well, will try and post again once we get there. Should be a fun and interesting race. I don't seem to be too worried about too much. This is all unventured "water" (no pun intended) so don't really have too many expectations. Going to be a fun journey!!

Will be in touch,
J