Hi all. Its 10pm on the eve of the first competition day here in Aarhus, Denmark. Had the march from the pool down to the town hall today - apparently there's around 40 nations represented with over 200 athletes - lots of colour, smiles and photo ops. Had drinks and nibbles while listening to speeches from Aida, Cmas, city reps etc. Actually not that painful. Its been fun getting to say hi to a heap of new faces, pretty much everybody is friendly and can speak at least some english.

DNF day tomorrow. 102 athletes competing in the heats, going 6 at a time, from lowest to highest nomination. Mixed sexes which is interesting. A bunch of those favored to do well have nominated around 1 metre, with some of the other 'guns', including all three kiwi boys competing - Kerian, Chris and Will, nominating high and going in the last heat. Will, who is arriving in town shortly, made the highest nomination at 156m.

The atmosphere is pretty good in the kiwi camp. I'm slowly recovering from a lung squeeze from Nordic Deep, Kathryn and Suzy are getting over colds, nothing too serious. Kathryn, Kerian, Darrell and myself, plus 'honorary' kiwis: Ruth (UK) Maria (Norway) and Jana (Canada) are staying at a hostel 30 mins away by bus; Suzy and her man Robbie are staying in the gymnasium with a bunch of other athletes. Chris was with us, but deserted to stay at a hotel with his father Ian, when he turned up completely out of the blue yesterday.

One of us will try to give an update sometime after tomorrow's DNF heats, which start at 3pm with the last swim at 6pm. STA nominations in by 1.30pm. I'll be busy coaching a few of the guys and gals. Wish em well...

Guy