Dancing In Berlin

''One,there's no time for this,two grant me just one wish,Please there's no wall in front of you
Dancing In Berlin,I want to see you Dancing In Berlin"
Dancing In Berlin. Berlin

Originally the plan was blog yesterday's 36 mile bike ride then write my World C'Ship Top Ten moments today.....................frankly after yesterdays 36 miler on the bike I was to put it mildly shagged out,not to mention a tad saddle sore,I hope the Team Ireland bike shorts I ordered online show up b4 next Saturdays 36 miler!!!
All that aside I'm pleased to report that I stuck to my guns and compleated the 36 miler yesterday,I don't think I've ever rode that far on a bike b4 and while it was a grind towards the end and a real "grit my teeth"performance I saw it through to the bitter end,hopefully come next week when I do it again it'll be a little easier.

And so to my Top Ten moments from Berlin:
10.Nerius & Harting win Golds for the hosts
Firstly mad props to Steffi Nerius,37 and still winning Gold medals at a World Championship in the women's Javelin.
Props to Robert Harding to pull out all the stops on the final throw in the men's Discus and capture the Gold,we've seen it b4 and will again how the home crowd can lift an athlete,it never gets old.
9. Blanka Vlasic.After a shock upset in Beijing last year in the Women's High Jump the lovable and leggy Croatian defended her Osaka 07 title,good to see her doing her victory dance again!
8.Steve Hooker.Fighting through an obvious pain barrier the Olympic Pole Vault Gold medal winner added World C'ship Gold to his resume by taking as few jumps as possible to first reach the finals then win the final...fair dinkum!!!
7.Allyson Felix,I can still remember her World C'ship debut in Paris 03,since then she's won 200m Gold in Helsinki in 05 and Osaka 07 and now Berlin 09.
6.Jessica Ennis,Britain's first Gold medalist at Berlin,an inspiration to all injured athletes,last year she missed the Olympics w/ two stress fractures in her ankle,12 months later she's World Champion.
5. Derval O Rourke,while 4th is probably the one place no athlete wants to finish Leesider Derval O Rourke was the highlight for Ireland in Berlin{props to Paul Hession a semi finalist in the men's 200m and David Gillick 6th in the 400m final}setting a Irish National record in the final,if she can steer clear of injuries maybe she'll claim Gold next Summer in Barcelona at the European C'ships.
4.Shannon Rowbury Do we finally have an American women's middle distance runner in the mold of the great Mary Decker?
After a dramatic opening round fall Shannon made into the semis via an appeal,left it late in the semis to make her move and reach the final where her gutsy 4th place finish was later upgraded to third and bronze after the rightful dq of the winner Natalia Rodriguez.
3.Bernard Lagat,at 34 this guy is still picking up medals at major c'ships,following his bronze in the 1,500m where his finishing kick was blunted by being boxed in he then gave the great Kenenisa Bekele all he could handle up the home straight in the 5,000m final,and all this w/ 4 stitches in a gash on his ankle from the semis.
2. Kenenisa Bekele,the first ever double 5,000m/10,000m Gold medalist in the history of the World C'ships....oh and the Gold in the 10,000m...his 4th in a row since 05.
1......................Usain Bolt.............who else??!!!
3 Golds,2 World Records and he just turned 23,9.58-19.19.....nuff said,mad props,much love,big ups to "The Lightning Bolt"