Day 2 without caffeine. Ahhhh I really wanted coffee this morning. The alarm started to go off at 7:45am and since I did not get to bed until almost 3, that is very early. I hit snooze until about 8:30 then I finally rolled out of bed to do my exercises before we said our final goodbyes to our lovely hosts then we were off to Moscow to fight traffic and run some final errands before heading to the airport at 3pm.

Russia has been a wonderful place, even in the bitter cold. I am leaving here excited to in a place where English is spoken more regularly, but I certainly will miss the sights, food and wonderful pool training.

I am off to Dahab for 10 days, hopefully for a little relaxation and some nice deep diving. I have been doing many negative pressure dives in the 6M pool working on equalization and relaxation. I will report if training the Russian Freediving programs for the past month has had any effect on my ability to dive deeper.