Recap of the race.....

Bugger really stresses me out sometimes....

He took a big risk by not putting our best rowers down for the mixed and opens set, just to try and give more of the team exposure.

But I guess.... looking at the lanes and current.... I wonder if it would have made a big difference anyway.

Everyone's talking about luck in this race. Lanes, collisions, high tide, low tide, in flow, out flow.

Overheard one team talking while waiting for our event:

"Shit man, lane one is like cursed."

"Yah, see the blardy scoreboard.... all got same pattern one."

"I don't care... next time we come here, our new goal will be nothing more than - to prove that lane one is cursed."

Just found that so amusing.

Alot of crap to keep track of at the race site. Are the guys psyched up or down properly, is everyone around basecamp, when is our event, is it going to rain, what lane we are in, what time our event is, how the current will be at that time, who are our opponents.

I guess at every competition I just have a serious face. Why the hell not? Its a serious matter. Yet every now and then someone would try to 'relax' me. I don't need to frickin relax loh :p

Though it was nice to talk to the grand seniors again. Even if they were with safsa or ntu.

Weiwen talking about the current and lanes and luck with me.

Roy asking me not to push too hard.

Boon telling me the guys look too stressed out :p

Sensei explaining the tides and flow, and tempting me with beer :p


Then came the ivp mens heats.
I knew it would be not an easy race. The teams I respect the most were in our heats, and we were in the worst lane and current combination.

Rowed like hell, screamed/sounded off for the end charge. Wasn't our best set, thought we were screwed as saw the uni boat slightly infront of us at the finish line.

Then looked around and saw no other boats and thought: "wtf?".

So I looked behind and saw two boats in great turmoil and thought "WTF?!".



Ok tired, I guess recap of the finals tomorrow.