Almost on the way to Asia.

Good morning,

I'm up early this morning. I was to go to the velodrome around eight this morning. But as I look out of the window and saw the rain radars, it wouldn't make any sense. Rain, rain and rain, which means no track time today. I'm not really complaining. This summer has been amazing and this is the first morning I've had to adapt my track session because of the weather. So far so good and I'm off here in two days time.

Now it is only less than 40 hours and I'll sitting in airplane on my way to Asia for my first multisport games. The 26^th Summer Universiade will be held in Shenzhen, China from 12^th to 23^rd of August and cycling will make its first appearance in the games. I heard from my Swiss friend that Summer Universiades are only second to Olympic games when considering the number of participants - I'll catch you there Simon! This year there will be 12.000 athletes and 73 from Finland, to me it seems quite big having mainly raced here in Helsinki. I'll be riding the Individual Pursuit as my main event and other events as they seem to fit the program.

I thought that I'll add here some more links for you:

Universiades 2011 – official page http://www.sz2011.org/Universiade/

Official Live Stream http://www.fisu.tv/su4/shen.html

More Live Stream http://eurorivals.net/2011-summer-universiade:-live-other-streams.html

I dunno whether the cycling will be in the streams. In the athlete village there are internet spots, but what I don't know how well I can keep my blog updated. But stay tuned in my Twitter!

http://twitter.com/#!/antonaro

'It is everywhere'

Chuang-Tzu

Competition venue (C) www.sz2011.org