The race day cometh

As the weekend quickly approaches the rowing has gotten more intense. Not so much the actual work, but the attitude behind it. Coach Hargis rode the launch with Boris yesterday. We did five by six minutes at different rates, not exactly the hardest workout but the fact that both coaches were watching made us think a little bit harder about how we rowed. I like to think the pieces went well minus the buoy incident, but those things happen when you row a straight four.

After the workout Coach Hargis gave us a talk about this teams goal for next year and everyone realized that next years Junior World Championship isn't as far off as we thought. It's kind of exciting to hear that you are the future of the national team.

Yesterday we took the train to Berlin to walk around the city and do some sight seeing. As we got off the train in our respected groups, we wondered why Boris's rule about always staying with him was suddenly so lax. After making it about one hundred yards from the train station entrance we realized why. If you take eight jet lagged teenaged boys, make them work out twice a day, and then set them free in the city. A. They can only go so far before they have to stop. And B. all they want to do is find a pizza place with free drink refills.

The boats are coming along. Set is starting to come a lot easier and it seems like people are able to focus a little bit better. Everyone for the most part has an assigned seat, now we need to figure out who goes in which boat. Hopefully we get that figured out pretty quick.