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Well, my team pulled in from our road trip back home at 5 this morning. With that trip came a lot of great wins at the Augusta Invitational at Langley Pond in South Carolina. We won the Novice 4+, Varsity 8+, and took first and third in the V4+. Between all this, we managed to also win the points trophy over College of Charleston, Duke, University of Charleston-West Virginia and Davidson. A great day of racing for my whole team, especially those who dealt with the increasing chop all day. The headwind/chop got so bad that the V4+ was only .6 seconds faster than the N4+, and the V8+ was maybe 5 seconds faster than both.

Frustratingly enough when I said earlier in the week that I could sit out if they wanted to be sure to boat everyone, I didn't think I had done that badly in my seat racing, but apparently I was half a length behind the port they swapped me with (he's also 50 pounds bigger than me). So I decided not to enter my single (mistake), and just watched. I really did want all the novice to get a chance to race, and there ended up being two of them in the V8+, where I would have been had I not volunteered.

As for the singles race, I half felt I wasn't ready, but half was pretty intimidated by the field. There were 5 entrants from GMS, 1 from NYAC, and 1 from PennAC. After seeing them race (and seeing the times), I seriously wish I would have entered. Never going to pass up an opportunity like that again.

I was in the novice and varsity 4+ for College of Charleston yesterday. Excellent races in both events, and good luck to your team the rest of the season. Hopefully we'll race again at Vails or ACRA.

charlesrwells wrote:I was in the novice and varsity 4+ for College of Charleston yesterday. Excellent races in both events, and good luck to your team the rest of the season. Hopefully we'll race again at Vails or ACRA.

I look forward to the rematch at Dad Vail! Good racing, sir

loooooooooooool. mike who won the championship singles head of the Charles and a bunch of u23 lightweights. i would had raced the first 500 like it was only a 500m piece to keep pace HAHA. maybe..250m actually...err crap.

why didnt you race? so the novice could get experience?

gnu wrote:loooooooooooool. mike who won the championship singles head of the Charles and a bunch of u23 lightweights. i would had raced the first 500 like it was only a 500m piece to keep pace HAHA. maybe..250m actually...err crap.

why didnt you race? so the novice could get experience?

Yes, as I said in my post.

Out of sheer curiosity, who do you row for?

I hope that didn't come out wrong i was referring to myself racing them not trying to be a douche. i row in new england don't worry about where though. the last thing i want is to represent my team on a forum.