Bret

AM - had some fun in Athens this morning.  Ran to the Olympic Stadium - site of the 1896 first modern Olympic Games and the 2000 Games and ran some laps around the track - took some photos and even got on the podium for a few fun shots.   The track has very narrow turns - with the straights measuring roughly 185 meters or the equivalent of antiquity measure of length of a "stade".   I read where the 200 meters of ancient times was the premiere race and so it can be covered almost entirely without a turn on the track.  In any event this was a pretty run nerdy awesome experience. The seating is all marble including the stairs and the setting is tucked in some trees and when I ran to the top of it the Parthenon and the Acropolis is easy to see close by.   Really fun time - as I was leaving a young couple arrived to run as well and were just as giddy as I was    "This is so cool!"