Day 3.....interesting day I must say....

Why is it that everytime you have to pee badly, you get a knot in your shoelace???
After a full week of -10 to -18 weather, I woke up to rain (and I still jogged yesterday)and +1 weather. Well the rain eventually turned into huge, poke me in the eye snowflakes, and it didn't stop snowing all day....of course, our first sliding day.
So I show up at the captains meeting (which is held before the 1st training day of every race to establish team running orders and to discuss other issues) and just before the meeting starts, I hear my name called "Stefanopoulos". So I am thinking, "hey, pretty cool, people are now getting to know who I am" so I raise my hand and I hear "hello, doping control, we need to test you".......awww great....now they're going to know how many pepperoni sticks I've been eating.
As I am doing the paperwork portion, the "Dr." finds out this is my 'first time' and so he calls me a virgin....well.....this just opened the humour door right?! As he explains to me that I have to pull my pants down this low and hold my shirt up this high before I pee (cause they literally stand there and watch you go) I figure both my hands will be occupied so.......I asked him if he would hold the cup...ha ha...of course he said no, and then, while I am just 'hanging loose', I ask him if I could get my camera cause this would make a great shot for my blog. Well, he laughed but the shot was a no-go and by now I am thinking that he wished he had picked someone else for the testing.
Anyways, I learned something about myself today.....I do not have stage fright....I filled that freakin' cup to the to the top and on demand.....what a performance!!
So, onto sliding, the weather was so bad, that they only allowed us one run instead of the customary two runs. The snow was so built up that you got a face full of it and the speeds ranged from 69kms to 89kms and the times were extremely slow. I am surprised that they even let us slide at all but in the end, it was good to see the whole course in slo-mo......it was an educational slide.
I must point out that I finished 8th out of 41 sliders......I don't care what the conditions, no one can take this one away from me he he.
The breakdown: 26 nations, 21 of them male sliders.....gonna be tough....top eight nations, not sliders, make it through.
Our 2 man bobsled team qualifies this morning so we should have result by this afternoon...hopefully good news.
And as for the first question, as I am walking back to my pension from supper, I gotta pee bad of course, but I make it back in time and up to my room in time but as I am untying my boots, one gets a knot in it.....I mean SHEESH, I still made it on time but lesson learned, Murphy is always along for the ride so.....wear velcro boots!!