The Olympics in my Hometown
| August 15, 2012 | Posted by Sweet Tooth Runner under Uncategorized |
Since July 27th, I have been living and breathing the Olympics. And since it ended a couple of days ago, I have been missing it like crazy. Having been completely immersed in it for 11 days, it’s hard for me to believe that it’s really all over! Thanks to the wonderful BBC and their live coverage of every single Olympic event, I basically watched the Olympic action all day every day when I wasn’t at events! I was actually supposed to be a kit-carrier, but unfortunately all the mandatory training days clashed with my music tour!
One of my favourite days was when I went to the Olympic Park to see the athletics. The Olympic Park is absolutely HUGE, and the stadium is massive too!
My running team and I were lucky enough to have been given free athletics tickets by the organisers of the London Marathon, which I am SO grateful for as I missed out on these in the ballot!
The seats were great, the action was incredible and the atmosphere was amazing, especially when Jess Ennis (Team GB’s poster girl) came on! The cheers for her were deafening!
I also managed to see some amazing track cycling action…out of a possible 12 gold medals in the velodrome Team GB won 9 of them! And a silver and bronze too 
I also went with my friend Jessy to see the women and men’s marathons. It was BEYOND AWESOME to see some of my favourite runners up close! I was so upset to hear a week before the women’s marathon that Paula Radcliffe was pulling out, but I still got to see some of my other favourites, including Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan!
Shalane Flanagan <3
The marathon route was the same for both the women’s and men’s marathons, and it was a lapped course which meant that we got to see the runners FOUR times! Jessy and I managed to get the same spot on the Embankment for both marathons…it was the best spot right next to the clock and we saw them at miles 1, 9, 17 and 25!
Stephen Kiprotich (Uganda), the men’s marathon winner
One of my favourite things about the London Olympics was the huge public screenings of Olympic events. After watching the women’s marathon, Jessy and I headed to Hyde Park to the BT London Live screening to watch Andy Murray win gold in the tennis!
The atmosphere there when Andy Murray won was INCREDIBLE, with thousands of people celebrating togther and red+white+blue streamers raining down on us Definitely worth the hour of queuing and the OTT security to get in!
I can’t believe it’s all over! I think I very briefly suffered from Post Olympic Depression, but that soon turned into Post Olympic DETERMINATION. Rio 2016? 
I’ve missed blogging, and I’ve missed all of you!! I should really start tackling the 500+ unread items in my Google Reader and the near 1000 unread emails, but right now it’s too intimidating so I think I’ll leave that to stew for a little longer I’ve just written up a running+life update post for tomorrow/Friday because I have SO much to catch you all up on!
Did you watch much of the Olympics? What was your favourite event to watch? Athletics, obviously! Mo Farah winning DOUBLE GOLD was the highlight of the whole Olympics for me
Hope you’re having a great summer! <3
Missed ya! Happy to see you’re back blogging! The olympics were so exciting here so I can’t even imagine how awesome it would have been to actually BE THERE! So awesome!
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awww thanks Kaila!! I’ve missed blogging, and need to catch up so badly!! hope you had a great weekend!! <3
loving how much jessy there is in this blogpost
LOVE YOU JESSY AND MISS YOU!! you have a running blog?!?! aaah my Internet is so bad here in the lake
<3
district so it’s not loading but as soon
as I can I will check it out! can’t wait
to read it!!
So much Olympics jealousy! I was thinking of you when I was watching the marathon actually, I figured you must be there
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So jealous of how much fun you had. That sounds like a once in a lifetime event. (minus when you are running the Olympics yourself!
)
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I’m glad you had such a blast during the Olympics!!
So jealous that you were able to get into so many places, though! I didn’t even get to see the end of the women’s marathon, because my parents and I had to leave early for Sunday service– oh well.
I’m definitely disappointed that the Olympics are over, but I’m glad that I can finally get back on a decent sleep schedule! I was staying up all hours just to watch most of those events!
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What a wonderful experience! On of my cousins helped out with the Olympics this year. I was only able to watch a few events since I don’t have TV in my home and I couldn’t figure out how to watch it online. What I did see was very inspiring!
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Woooo Olympics, I miss it so much! I was away for a bit of it but enjoyed watching it on TV. Got to say I loved the cycling road races, swimming and atheletics most, jealous you got to see this! Bet the atmosphere was wicked watching it ont big screens. xxx
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Hey! I am a new reader to your blog but I love it! You’re SO cute:-)
I am so jealous you got to see the marathons! You must have been beyond excited!
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HEY Laura!! haha thanks!! yes I was so so lucky to be able to see them:) hope you had a great weekend! <3
I loved every second of the Olympics, jealous you got athletics and cycling tickets! I went to see the beach volleyball, basketball, hockey and women’s marathon and had a great time! I was so impressed with the organisation/volunteers etc Team GB did amazing, and I am definitely suffering Post Olympic Depression. Mo winning the double gold was definitely the highlight for me! Also totally agree the live sites were awesome, watching the 100m final at the hyde park site was incredible! I would love to go to Rio in 2016, I spent a while travelling in Brazil a few years back and know they will put on an awesome show!
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oh wow, you were so lucky getting to see so many awesome events!! and wow you’ve been to brazil?! I’d love
to go someday, so maybe for 2016 too!!
hope you had a great weekend!! <3
How absolutely fabulous that you got to go to so many events. I’ll bet they all were amazing, but I think I the womens’ marathon would be my top pick if I had to choose just one!
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Hi sweetie! Good to see you! I’m so jealous you got to see the athletics – I really wish I could’ve got some tickets but hey-ho! I hope you’re well and running wild as usual
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EMMA!! I’ve missed you, how are you?! sorry to hear you couldn’t get tickets, I had problems with that too! I hope you’re good and had a great weekend!! <3
Emma!!! We must of been within almost hugging distance at the marathon! I was at embankment too and your photos look like they were taken not far from where we were stood! Booo! Next time i’m in London maybe have a blog meet up!!
So glad you had a nice time and good to see you on my reader! I miss your updates!
Hope the weekend was lovely and have a sunny week xxx
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oh nooo!! I wish I’d known, we could have met up!! aaah well, next time for sure
thanks! I had a great weekend, I hope you did too!! <3