End of Supercomp
Woke up this morning to the barrage of social media surrounding the Boston situation. Just craziness. While we are far away at the moment, Boston somehow feels very close to home. I just hope everyone is OK. Stay home, be safe.
Yesterday afternoon, we did a singular mini race 1500 m piece. The was a very stiff headwind on the course and a lot of afternoon boaters. We did the best we could to find a window for the 5-6 min piece. I think all of us were feeling pretty beat from the last few days of work but the promise of a singular piece was welcoming.
I was on the outside of the course, so lane zero. I had some issues staying straight into the wind but ended up managing it alright. Steve and I blasted off the line and built a pretty huge lead on everyone else. I felt like I was moving at a pace that, especially into the headwind, would allow me to creep away gradually as others pace dropped off. Steve definitely had some good pushes around the 1k and afterwards. We were within a length of each other for the first 1k or so. I was holding about a half length on him, and a few lengths on the rest, when we all got hit pretty bad by wakes. I kept moving through the wake, Steve kinda let the wake go through, and I finished a few seconds ahead. Pretty slow times, but it was a good effort.
This morning, very sloppy and wet conditions. The task was 4 x sprinting 500 meters. There was a great deal of chop and cross tailwind. Very good practice for the conditions in Princeton. But, it was more of a technical exercise dealing with the conditions rather than physically draining workout. We did the first one at base and used it kind of as a warm-up. The next three were replicating the final 500. I was able to execute pretty well, holding base pace for 20-30 seconds then sprinting for 40 strokes or more. I was a little bummed that the conditions weren't better because I felt like I could have unleashed a pretty gnarly 500m time. It was just too sloppy for that unfortunately.
On the sprint pieces I went 1:38.6, 1:39.3, 1:39.3.
To be perfectly honest, these did not feel like max pieces because of the high technical awareness required to keep it clean in the slop. It was tough to really go ballistic because it probably would result in crab or flipping!
Anyways, lots of hard work over the last few days and I was happy to maintain the quality throughout the super comp. I won each piece today and all but the last by open water. Ben kept up on the last one which was great to see.
We will be helping out here at the Clemson Invitational this weekend, driving launches, holding boats, etc. Then on Monday we will row and drive up to Princeton!!
Yesterday afternoon, we did a singular mini race 1500 m piece. The was a very stiff headwind on the course and a lot of afternoon boaters. We did the best we could to find a window for the 5-6 min piece. I think all of us were feeling pretty beat from the last few days of work but the promise of a singular piece was welcoming.
I was on the outside of the course, so lane zero. I had some issues staying straight into the wind but ended up managing it alright. Steve and I blasted off the line and built a pretty huge lead on everyone else. I felt like I was moving at a pace that, especially into the headwind, would allow me to creep away gradually as others pace dropped off. Steve definitely had some good pushes around the 1k and afterwards. We were within a length of each other for the first 1k or so. I was holding about a half length on him, and a few lengths on the rest, when we all got hit pretty bad by wakes. I kept moving through the wake, Steve kinda let the wake go through, and I finished a few seconds ahead. Pretty slow times, but it was a good effort.
This morning, very sloppy and wet conditions. The task was 4 x sprinting 500 meters. There was a great deal of chop and cross tailwind. Very good practice for the conditions in Princeton. But, it was more of a technical exercise dealing with the conditions rather than physically draining workout. We did the first one at base and used it kind of as a warm-up. The next three were replicating the final 500. I was able to execute pretty well, holding base pace for 20-30 seconds then sprinting for 40 strokes or more. I was a little bummed that the conditions weren't better because I felt like I could have unleashed a pretty gnarly 500m time. It was just too sloppy for that unfortunately.
On the sprint pieces I went 1:38.6, 1:39.3, 1:39.3.
To be perfectly honest, these did not feel like max pieces because of the high technical awareness required to keep it clean in the slop. It was tough to really go ballistic because it probably would result in crab or flipping!
Anyways, lots of hard work over the last few days and I was happy to maintain the quality throughout the super comp. I won each piece today and all but the last by open water. Ben kept up on the last one which was great to see.
We will be helping out here at the Clemson Invitational this weekend, driving launches, holding boats, etc. Then on Monday we will row and drive up to Princeton!!
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