Masters Nationals 2010 (New Jersey)

[mikvan52]

Quite a few C2 erg enthusiasts here: sweep rowing and sculling...

The event goes from today, Thursday 8/12 thru this coming Sunday.

I'll be blogging at

http://concept2.co.uk/forum/blog.php?u=7679&b=76723

and adding highlights here...

[NavigationHazard]

When not running for cover from the storms about to roll in....

[bloomp]

Mike, Joe, (Nav?) kick some ass! My friends from Riverfront should be putting up some damn fast times too!

[mikvan52]

Saw Neil Harrigan (in his dashing blue and white stripes)... Looking great in a 4+

Results are trickling in at racetrak.com

http://www.racetrak.com/central/public/ ... Choice=269

I just got done w/Heat 3 of the E 1x (Event #8)

Squeaked by John Pauls for 1st
He & I are going to scull in the lwt E 2x on Sunday...

[mikvan52]

Noon THursday personal update:

http://concept2.co.uk/forum/blog.php?u=7679&b=76732

[bloomp]

Congrats on the big win, Mike! Great race, from what I saw you won by a length on some pretty shitty water.

[mikvan52]

Congrats on the big win, Mike! Great race, from what I saw you won by a length on some pretty shitty water.

...thanks
............and then the water got worse for the final.
....................THe 6 of us were sitting there, waiting our turn to get locked-in to the stake boats...just laughing at out plight.

Definitely a low-rate situation... I got off the line ahead and soldiered on through the slop.
John Pauls put up a valiant fight but fell short... I look forward to facing him again tomorrow in the LWT E 1x race..

[bloomp]

Good work again. I saw you miff one catch, but a cleaner race overall today. Greater margin of victory too!

Do you have any more races?

[Nosmo]

Good Job Mike! No surprises there! Times still look pretty slow but obviously you can handle the rough water.
Kick butt tomorrow

[mikvan52]

Got some good press for me and my club (Upper Valley RF, Hanover, NH)
http://row2k.com/events/features.cfm?ID=158

Yes I really did muff a stroke today. I wanted to try my regular rigging in the slop. It wasn't a particularly wise choice... But it did give me an advantage in the last 20-30 strokes of the race where the water flattened out a good bit...

Most all of us were quite tired from prior racing in the last 24 hrs. John Pauls had just come off the water with a big win in a 4x. I salute Ed Ryan and John Rich (Silver and Bronze) they both sculled extremely well. We were in lanes 1,2,& 3 so it was a true boat race and a hard fought contest.

I race at 9 am tomorrow in a hwt E 2x w/my friend TIm Willsallen of Casacadilla (Ithaca, NY). This will be yet another tough contest... top 3 to go to the final in the PM.

Sunday in the PM I have a finals only Lwt E 2x w/John Pauls (London, Ont.... and Fluid Design mgr.)

Thanks for all the kind words.....

[mikvan52]

Sunday (yesterday) i paired up with John Pauls in the Lwt E 2x.... Great partner!!

Next year's regatta will; be at the new rowing venue in Oklahoma City.... way-

(I guess "it's a wrap")

http://www.row2k.com/events/photo.cfm?a ... 010&hi=yes