Friday, July 4, 2014

Henley Royal Regatta

Well we are already a few days into the regatta.  The regatta is completely different than anything I have seen in the US.  I have spent the past few days taking in all the sights and experiences of this wonderful regatta.  Getting this full experience is very time and energy consuming, thus the lack of posts and updates.  In the past week I have spent maybe 60 minutes total in front of a computer like device which makes blogging hard.  But anyways.

Quick update on our team.  The V8 lost their first and only race to their Dutch competitors.  It was a hard fought race in the beginning stretch but we did not have the strength and technic to match their speed in the remains portion of the very long race course.  (That Dutch crew advanced one more round before being eliminated by a Cornell boat.)  After the race I compared times and distances of other crews in the first round of the Temple Challenge Cup, and our times were about average.  Meaning that theoretically could have beat half the crews making past 1 round, but we got a very fast crew round 1.  The draw is part of the Henley experience and unfortunately we received a bad draw for us.

After the loss the team de-rigged the boat and put it on the trailer.  Since then, the rowers and coaches have been taking in the regatta experience.  Watching some great races, meeting some great people, and having a good time in general.

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