Twas a hard fight today.

Multiple cock ups.

Firstly, the balance was bad. Left side too light, right side too heavy. Drummer and coxswain couldn't compensate enough. So whole set boat was either leaning right or rocking alot.

Next, the pull just wasn't there. Couldn't feel it somehow. Maybe I was too concentrated on getting the boat calls at the right time.

Then towards the end, ITE came very close to our left side, this caused some of the guys to lose focus, worry about not last charge call not being audible, which heck, I was worried about too. The ITE drummer was bloody hell drumming like his life depended on it... when I screamed for the last charge, thank god I got a response. But some of the back rowers couldn't hear. Sigh.

But all in all, we came in first for that set, so we were lucky.

Stayed to watch gemax race. Felt weird watching them instead of being there with them. I could imagine ah hee's signals just by watching his hand actions on the boat. They lost to NUS. If only they had our original full crew, I know the result would've been different. Alot of good rowers were with NTU and I was with the pirates.

Tomorrow I need to stretch out more. Feel more water.

Tired of getting next best.

The second boat past the finish line is the first boat to lose.