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Day off.
We had a nice little day off on Sunday, and took a trip up a mountain side next to the lake. It was a pretty cool day for it as the clouds were covering the top of the mountain. It’s a little over 5000 ft to the very top and marks where the alps start [...]
Europe Bound and 2k Ready / Lucerne
Right now I’m sitting on a plane leaving Germany bound for Italy, staring over the wing of the plane I’m trying to contemplate the last month of training, and how to put it into words. It has been an exhausting but rewarding chunk of training. We’ve buried our bodies with high intensity, high volume workouts, [...]
123 days to London.
123 days until the games means that a tough but eventful winter of training is winding down, and spring is in the air. The winter has been a real grind this year, but I feel like I have handled it better than I did last year. I think just being used to the volume and [...]
The Winter Training Machine
“This ain’t something you can go home and say, I wanna get in Beastmode I wanna get in Beastmode. Naw, Beastmode is inside of you.” -Marshawn Lynch Most rowing teams and coaches know that any medals awarded in the summer are earned in the winter, and we are now in full swing. If you are [...]
A final
After yesterday’s racing we have found ourselves in the A final, and qualified for the Olympics in 2012. The race good but not our best. I’m looking forward to getting out there and putting it right. Since our meeting last night I have known exactly what I need to do, and it’s just a matter [...]
The Heats/Semi Lead up
The heats are done, and it went great. We were seeded against one of the top crews from Lucerne, the Dutch, and came out on top. My day started off like most other days getting ready for the race, waking up just before 6:30am with enough time to throw on some rowing clothes and get [...]
Finally Here.
Well we are finally here in Slovenia, and this place is amazing. I have been to a lot of racecourses, but this one is unreal. It’s almost exactly 2 kilometres long, surround by mountains, and 500 meters in to the course, there is a huge castle on a ridge, high above the course. I could [...]
World Championship Lead Up
“The hardest person to beat is yourself, because whatever you do, you just did.” – My man, K.Light You can think that is pretty funny/silly, or go out there any try to better yourself all the time. I think it’s pretty awesome. That’s basically what the last four weeks since the Lucerne World Cup have [...]
Heat Frustration to Redemption / A-final
Today really just came down to doing what we said we were going to do. After the heats on Friday, I was more pissed off then anything. We set out on the water and the warm up was great, but as the light turned green to start the race, it was dull. We got out to [...]