Heather Fell - Professional Modern Pentathlete for Great Britain
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Monday, 6 February 2012
I may have joked about sweeping the running track but the performance director earned his keep this last week with the broom. The snow didn't stop after that first twenty-four hours and as beautiful as the mountains may have looked the conditions weren't pleasant for running. We battled on for the first few days, adapting our sessions to run on the sunny side of the track that had been melted, but by the end of the camp the coach gave in and resorted to our sessions being run on the treadmill. However there were six of us and one treadmill, not really the idea of being in the French Pyrenees, but at least we still had the benefit of altitude.
I had been following the weather reports back home with news of winter arriving at last - but laughing at the comments - as we were in conditions more than ten degrees colder. Although there didn't seem to be much snow about, that was until we landed on Saturday afternoon. In the time it took for us to be picked up from Bristol airport and taken back to Bath the city turned white and inevitably ground to a halt. It really did seem we brought the snow back with us.
Despite my car being abandoned in the snow I made it back to Bristol to the Hippodrome to see the musical 'Dreamboats and Petticoats', I was determined to get out and put on a dress and heels after two weeks of living in sports kit. I thoroughly enjoyed the show and even had a little 'boogey'; it is the first musical I've been to where the whole audience were up on their feet dancing for the finale.
