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After four days of being in the Olympic Village, I'm finally starting to get to know my way around.

This place is massive, it's like a small town and it's bigger than the village I come from in Cumbria.

It's been a good few days though mingling with the other athletes and being recognised by Lleyton Hewitt.

But with my competition starting tomorrow, it's time for final preparations.

That means not going to the opening ceremony for starters.

I'm not that bothered as I'll chill out and watch a bit of it on the television back at the flat with the other five archers.

We are all in the same apartment - the boys are one side, the girls the other and I'm the tidy one of the men, while Larry Godfrey's room is like a pigsty.

All the Brits are in the same area of the village and we are in four tower blocks - the cyclists are close by and I get a hello from Chris Hoy in the mornings - he seems like a lovely bloke.

I've also seen Hewitt, who I met while training at the Australian Institute of Sport earlier in the year - he nodded and said "g'day", which was nice.

I started out at the GB training camp in Macau which was a good few days getting over the jet lag, doing a bit of training and meeting some of the hockey players and boxers, but thankfully we left before the typhoon struck.

And since we've been in Beijing, there's been a couple of functions we've had to attend, which were great.

Last night we were all suited and booted to go the British Embassy - it was great to be in the same room as people like Sir Matthew Pinsent and Princess Anne.

And we've had a motivational meeting with Simon Clegg, the British Olympic Association chief executive, and elite performance director Sir Clive Woodward, who talked about focusing on what we want to be remembered for at the Olympics.

And I'm as ready as I possibly can be - there is nothing different I could've done in my preparations to improve myself and the same goes for Larry and Simon Terry - the team is stronger than it has ever been.

The women's team event gets underway first and we follow straight after.

I'll get up in the morning, have a late breakfast and a bit of dinner before heading off to the archery field - which is looking in great condition. We were here a year ago for an event and I swear the grass is looking greener than back then.

We had a quiet practice session there this morning and there are obviously a few more banners up and security is a bit tighter, but it looks in great nick.

After dinner, we'll head down to the field where we get a 45-minute warm-up session on the targets and a 15-minute breather before the competition starts.

The first round is the ranking one where we get to shoot 72 arrows and that will take a couple of hours.

The women are back on the Sunday for their knockout rounds and their medals will be decided then, whereas we get the day off and are back on Monday.

I doubt we'll go see the women on the Sunday - if needed we will, but I'll probably relax in the morning and then go see my mum and dad in the afternoon.

Actually, I need to phone my dad to see if he's coming to the qualifying round tomorrow - he and my mum have tickets for the finals days - but I need to tell him to keep out the way if he does come tomorrow as the last thing I need is him popping his head up to say hello and suprising me!

Tuesday is a day off before Wednesday's qualifying for the individual event - the finals day for that is Friday, so I'm doing nothing for the next week but focussing on my performance.

You can watch the action from 0500 BST on Saturday and I'll hopefully be back next Friday to let you know how the week went from my perspective.

Alan Wills was talking to 大象传媒 Sport's Peter Scrivener.