Henley Day Fifteen: Moving On & Reading

Sunday has rolled around and the athletes are taking a well-deserved day off. Yesterday morning, attempting to shake off the disappointment of the incident in the qualifier, the crew rowed to Reading through the Marsh Lock, Shiplake Lock, and the Sonning Lock directly to the start of the Senior 3 Men's Eights (many thanks to Peter Needham, the regatta chairperson for getting us into the race). Predictably, the women took a hard-earned third place to some good quality English men's crews and then relaxed for a few hours before racing in the Senior Two Women's 4+ event where they won comfortably against Maidenhead RC.

Rowing back to the Henley boat tents afterwards was perhaps the first time we've experienced a tail wind and tail current in the past few weeks.

We're going to use these next few days to try and taper down our training and provide a little closure on the season - our seniors will be pulling a 2000m ergometer piece on Monday and the remaining athletes are talking about what ways they can stay active.

To all of our athletes back home, we'll be sending out the summer training package soon with suggested workouts, standards, and goals.