Just woke up from one of the best sleeps I have had in a long time. I didn't sleep well because I was satisfied in any way with my racing on Friday but just because I was very tired. The day started with a time trial from a fixed start, while others were dine on a 1900 m rolling start. I had a really good piece and felt strong throughout. I started last in my heat so I couldnt see anybody and there was no way for me to know how I was doing in terms of qualification. Conversely, the polish single was watching me the entire way. I had come up on him and was in second at the 1500 m mark before he responded and sent me to the rep! No big deal considering I am here to race as much as possible, but frustrating to have someone respond to me and not being able to do anything about it- needless to say it made me hungry to do some head to head racing.
Going into the repechage I thought I should be able to control the race. I could not have been more wrong. My mistak was to assume I was still at U23's. When in reality, no one is bad here. The rep is probably still a faster race than NSR 1. So when it was four boats across with 500 m to go fighting fir 3 spots, it took a gut check, and I was really pleased with what i was made of.
I started really torquing it at 1000 m rowing 35 spm long and as hard as I could to go through the field. I definitely moved into qualifying position and may have taken the lead at some point but it was all very close. The Azerbaijani sculler had blasted out and was still leading me, Slovenia, and portugusl. At 1500, I was breathing well but had already gone very hard to get to that point. So I went again. I went to 37, then to 39, then to 40 for 40 stroked. I started to pull through the leader very quickly and I was loving it. I was rowan full slide, full power, and the announcer and fans in the grandstand noticed my move. I could hear my name. Never before have I been able to produce such a concerted and decisive sprint that was technically sound and devastating to my competition. Honestly, this was a great feeling. I was thinking with 30 strokes to go that my dad would love to see this. You imagine doing moves like that, but to execute it really made my self-belief even stronger. I asked my self the question of how much this experience meant to me and how genuine it actually is...I was happy with the response I got.
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Now onto the semi where I will encounter much of the same and even faster guys! Top 3 to the A final. That would be great, but I am just going to try to row as complete a race as I can. These races are sprints jn th purest sense. There Is no waiting around. The times for our rep were slow because of weird cross head wind in the middle of the day while the morning was dead calm. Afternoon races had great tailwind, see fast times at the end of the day.
Semis this morning, finals in the pm. Then the Biergarten!!!!! Thanks for reading!
Going into the repechage I thought I should be able to control the race. I could not have been more wrong. My mistak was to assume I was still at U23's. When in reality, no one is bad here. The rep is probably still a faster race than NSR 1. So when it was four boats across with 500 m to go fighting fir 3 spots, it took a gut check, and I was really pleased with what i was made of.
I started really torquing it at 1000 m rowing 35 spm long and as hard as I could to go through the field. I definitely moved into qualifying position and may have taken the lead at some point but it was all very close. The Azerbaijani sculler had blasted out and was still leading me, Slovenia, and portugusl. At 1500, I was breathing well but had already gone very hard to get to that point. So I went again. I went to 37, then to 39, then to 40 for 40 stroked. I started to pull through the leader very quickly and I was loving it. I was rowan full slide, full power, and the announcer and fans in the grandstand noticed my move. I could hear my name. Never before have I been able to produce such a concerted and decisive sprint that was technically sound and devastating to my competition. Honestly, this was a great feeling. I was thinking with 30 strokes to go that my dad would love to see this. You imagine doing moves like that, but to execute it really made my self-belief even stronger. I asked my self the question of how much this experience meant to me and how genuine it actually is...I was happy with the response I got.
r
Now onto the semi where I will encounter much of the same and even faster guys! Top 3 to the A final. That would be great, but I am just going to try to row as complete a race as I can. These races are sprints jn th purest sense. There Is no waiting around. The times for our rep were slow because of weird cross head wind in the middle of the day while the morning was dead calm. Afternoon races had great tailwind, see fast times at the end of the day.
Semis this morning, finals in the pm. Then the Biergarten!!!!! Thanks for reading!
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