The days are passing by quickly here in Dandenong, a rough little suburb just outside of Melbourne. Overall everything is sweet although the traffic is horrendous and we've been yelled at almost everyday by over-stressed drivers. We've now found a nice cycle path up the Dandenong creek and there's also the course just 30min away, so we're managing fine. I've also been doing some local criterium races. The course here is very flat, but with lots of sharp corners... I'm figuring the crits will be the perfect preparation and I guess we'll find out soon enough if I'm right! Otherwise we're just hanging out and when we're bored we go to the local mall to buy groceries and grab a freshly squeezed juice. I've managed to avoid all distractions and are trying to treat this like any other big race. The opening ceremony was on this evening, but we chose to watch it on T.V from our room. The race is on Thursday next week (23 March, women's start time 1030, men's 1400), so cross your fingers for me!