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We fly out to Beijing on Wednesday and the excitement is really building. Apparently we have done 308 days of preparation so far this year.

So adding up all the years since I have been rowing and dreaming about this kind of opportunity, I make that roughly 4,299 days of preparation.

But that is too many days to think about at the moment, so I'm just taking it one day at a time, one session at a time, relishing the moment we are in.

After training camps abroad over the last few weeks we have come together as a full squad - men and women - at our in Reading for our final preparations.

Unfortunately we couldn't go out to join the rest of Team GB in Macau as there is no rowing course there, but bringing the whole rowing squad together for this last week has really made the momentum build.

The hotel and boathouse here have both been set up to have an Olympic feel, which gives us all that extra lift every day.

Everyone is really looking forward to seeing what the Games are going to be like and to getting out there and seeing how fast we can all go.

With all the build-up and counting down that's going on all around us, in the papers and on the television, it feels like we have next to no time left.

But in fact the heats will take place in just under two weeks, and the finals in just under three; and in training and peaking terms three weeks is a long time.

So there are still many sessions and many days left yet to get the most out of, and just as well as there is still really important work to be done in bringing everything together, making the final tweaks in technique and making sure that we are sharpening up physically.

Who knows what it'll be like in Beijing when we get out there, but every day now we are finding more speed with the boat and feeling better recovered in ourselves.

The only way is up (and slightly eastwards) now, so I'll just keep taking it one day at a time until the starter says go!