COUNTDOWN TO THE
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL RACE




Things are Heating up on the Rotsee! July 8th,2011
Racing action got underway in the beautiful Swiss Alps this morning. In our event there were four heats and only the winners of these heats would advance directly to the semi-final tomorrow. All others would head into the repachage slated to begin around 7:30 tonight. Based on this progression it’s clearly an advantage to win the heat so that your legs don’t have to take the abuse of racing twice in a day. Although winning was the outcome that we wanted to achieve, we had clearly defined tasks that we set out to accomplish as well.
We’d drawn a couple of much respected crews, USA2 and DEN are tough competitors, so we knew we’d need to stay edgy. At the end of the day we successfully accomplished our mission by winning our heat and posting the fastest time of the day by two seconds!
We are happy with our win, but our coach continues to remind us that today is only day one of a three day regatta. So tomorrow is a new day; a fresh start where the results of today are history. Now it is time to pick up the pen and attend to the business of preparing ourselves for the semis. The draw will not be released until after the repachage racing is over tonight…it may be after my bedtime before we know who we’ll be racing.
On that note, if you are keen you can find most details about the regatta and results on the World Rowing website at www.worldrowing.com.
Thanks for all your cheering!! Keep it up!
Tracy