Vancouver bobsleigh track, out of corner 13, CRASH!
Today I’ve had the pleasure of a new experience, for me. What my collegues had already had, and not me: a crash with my bobsleigh, down the track.
It was on the second run of the day, when you are more confident, after having passed the first without (say) any problem. They know that corner 13 here is very tough, because it’s the fastest point of the track (145km/h) and 13 is very tight; no error is admitted there, and one error we made.
Being the brakeman, you don’t really understand well what is happening, until your helmet hits the wall and you can hear a bad noise.
We haven’t any big problem apart from:
- Our Sled broken on the right-back part
- My helmet broken
- My shoulder’s skin burnt in a 5 centimeters area
- Fabrizio’s rib… he doesn’t know what…
The most important thing, they say, is not to think about it and go down as soon as possible, to leave phantoms out of your head 
Skype for Mac 2.8 simplifies my nomadic sales operations.
The new Skype version for Mac (2.8 beta) provides new cool features, as you can see in the following embedded video.
The one I prefer is, indeed, Screen Sharing. As a nomadic professional, I can finally enrich my remote presence in many sales meetings, being able to talk and show my stuff in very immediate way.
I used to share my screen using LogMeIn, but I think I will switch very soon to Skype 2.8 for Mac (already installed and tested the beta release).
Among other semplifications, the one I prefer is needing anything more than a Skype installation on the audience side, that makes a lot easier to organize remote – and effective – meetings.
Bobsled individual push tests: 7.47, that’s good
Very intersting day, yesterday; for the first time I could challenge myself in bobsled individual tests.
Being a guy who comes from Decathlon and is used to be all by himself during a two-days-race, I was a little bit sick of not having any individual measurement of my performances.
Yesterday the men bobsled Italian team was in Cesana Pariol and we did a 2-pushes test with a 130kgs sled down the indoor track.
I had a very positive feedback, improving my last (that was October) best by 24 cents of a second; I set 7.47 and my best was 7.71. That is good news because I feel I am on the right track to gain, one day, a place on Italy-1.
Today we are traveling to Koenigssee for the next World Cup race (Jan 10th-11th)
