Meeting old friends

Didn't sleep so well after all last night's excitement and then having to charge all my devices overnight, so with a much earlier start due to having to take the U-bahn I was a bit cream-crackered. 

Leaving at 6am, managed to get to the media centre around 7.25am and not long after the rain decided to throw itself at us as hard and fast as it could. Huge thunderstorm, but didn't last too long, thankfully, as I left my rain jacket at home.

Indoor rowing and basketball on today, with many more teams taking part than took part in the rugby, so 2 group matches were taking place at the same time in separate courts.

The listing showed each game, the first of each pair was on centre court, the 2nd on court 1. Until we got to the last pairing before lunch.

We had been told all morning that Harry was going to be in again, and I mentioned it was likely he would be at the UK / Ukraine match which looking at the schedule should have been on court 1, but that's more open so I suspected he would be in the centre court.when we saw what match was in the centre court (the UK/Ukraine) turns out they'd switched the courts as centre court is easier to control walkways and keep the press from him.

So it was to be a late lunch.

I was quite excited to see JJ Chalmers walk in ahead of the Royal visit and went over to see if he'd be happy to have a selfie. I showed him the photo I took at the Invictus games in 2014 and he laughed saying he looked like a boy.

Harry arrived and sat with JJ for the match then disappeared again after. 

After lunch we didn’t need to go back on shift as the next group were taking over and it was a short day of competition, so I sat with a few others for a while in the media tent using the free wifi and then spotted Jonathan Edwards. I tried to take a picture if him but he was in front of the window so it was a bit dark. Then Erik, one of my fellow volunteers called out to him and said I'd like to speak to him. I mentioned about Join-in (the London 2012 legacy programme we had been involved with) where we had met before some years ago, he is currently working with the host broadcaster.

Having finished my last blog using the on-site WiFi, we then headed home for a nice hot shower and an early night.