IMuck part two: registering and Mr Felt stars again!

So off i went to register and the field the expo was in was like a quagmire and so was the campsite next to it. Everyone from the UK was well prepared and had brought their wellie boots so it looked a bit like the Glastonbury of triathlon except there were no bands and no one was drunk (yet). Not that anyone could even get a nice hot cup of tea and an iced bun as the mobile cafe things weren’t open (and this was the Friday before the race so the main day for registration!)
Mr Felt went to have a crucial piece fixed which cost 2 pounds then they charged me another 15 pounds (about 135AED) for attaching it – couldn’t believe it! (Then later on when i came to pack him up i discovered that the idiot overcharging mechanic had tightened the pedals so much (or glued them??) that not even the combined force of my parents’ neighbours who are quite handy could get them off! They are stuck on for life i think! ) So we grumpily trudged back across the quagmire where we went to look at the kswiss stand (not much to see at the expo, just kswiss and a TriUk marquee, bit crap compared to other races but good when you don’t have much money left!)
Mr Felt was in his element at the k swiss stand as he got very admired and had his photo taken a lot. He likes this. People think he’s a top end bike just cos he’s wearing his borrowed zipps (but don’t tell Mr Felt i said that...). the kswiss people asked us if we’d done any modelling before (cos we were obviously so natural at it ;-) lol) i said yes but as the 2007 2XU model, not wrapped in 5 layers of clothing and covered in mud. Not quite the same.
mr felt being admired by kswiss people