18 Oct 08 And now I am an Italian Bob Team member!

Today I was in Cesana Pariol, the Torino 2006 Olympic Bobsleigh, Skeleton and Luge track, to perform my first ever Bob experience.

In a few words: imagine yourself sliding on an ice half pipe, going in corners at a more than 130km per hour speed, in a more than 90 degrees slope, for 19 corners in 1400 meters, completed in 57 seconds.

After making this imagination effort, please believe me, change your expectations!

The real thing is: you are in a really small iron box, holding yourself tight to stand up to knocks and direction changings, watching your feet and your pilot’s back, trying to remember where is the last corner… because you must brake after it..

OK. It is something more exciting than that… I just wanted to give an extreme view of my experience… that was really great.

I am sure I will come back here with new details, because I am quickly discovering that Bob is not just running and going fast but it is hard work as well.