Countdown

So it appears I've managed to start following my own blog, so take that as a sign of technical incompetence rather than my ego. You'll know when it's my ego...

We're really coming into the final stretch before racing starts. Our workload is down to almost nothing, a 500m piece this morning, then only a single lap of the course this afternoon. The 500 was pretty solid, just swinging it along at base, trying to keep the speed and rate at a reasonable 2k pace, and it felt pretty good. We did it next to the LM8+, but I think we stayed nicely internal and I'm not totally sure how we compared to them. While we don't race until Monday, they have their heats tomorrow so they didn't go out this afternoon. With two to advance straight through to the A-final on Sunday, hopefully they'll have a great race and get to relax through the week.

Our heat draw also came out today. We're racing Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and France. We faced three of these crews, Poland, Belgium, and France in Lucerne, so it will be an excellent opportunity to see how our speed has improved since then. I can't be divulging our racing secrets on a public forum, but I'm looking forward to see what happens. It's also top two out of the heats for us, but instead of straight to the final it's to advance to the A/B semi next Friday, the rest into the reps on Wednesday. I definitely don't think we're out of the hunt for the top two, but nothing is going to be a given through the next week. We'll really have our work cut out, but there's something extremely exciting about racing the best in the world.

Anyway, that's all for now. There's a link to some of the pictures I've taken since getting here on the right column. Enjoy.