Long day - finally arrived

Phew - what a day of traveling - it's 4:26 AM eastern time and 1:26 AM Pacific time and we arrived at the hotel about 20 minutes ago. Everything went reasonably smoothly apart from a two hour delay in Hartford due to thunderstorms. I was impressed with how the team handled the long day and even more impressed with their personable nature and confident conversation skills with other passengers.

Relaxed day tomorrow - looking forward to exploring the area!

Sacramento Bound!

Sitting here in the Bradley International Airport food court it's kind of interesting to feel the expectations of the team. It promises to be a pretty long day of travel with a stopover in Nashville, TN and then a fairly long leg into Sacramento that arrives at 10:15 PM.

The progress and continued focus over the past two weeks of training have brought forth a number of technical changes that I personally can't wait to see in action. The fitness levels of the athletes, their attention to detail, and the team cohesion are fascinating to observe and compare to last year. It seems hard to believe that it was only a year ago that we were sitting in this same food court on the way to Oak Ridge, TN.

In other Trinity news, the men's baseball squad played in the first of two potential NCAA Championship baseball games this morning and lost their first game of the season 4-3 to put them to 44-1 on the season. They'll play another game for the championship in about 30 minutes that will decide the national champion. Their progress from last season to now has been unbelievable and shows what hard work, talent, and desire can do in the right combination.

Next post - California!

NCAA Training

Back on the blog after a couple of faithful readers have indicated that the blog is "terrible" and "not updated at all". Who am I to argue? It has been a whirlwind last three weeks with the New England Championships, ECAC National Invitational, and then senior week and graduation. It has been really wonderful to get down to training after so many weeks of consecutive races and it's fun to see the progress that the team is making.

The travel arrangements for the NCAA and Henley have all been finalized and now it's a question of making continual progress physically and technically as we move forward. Many thanks to the parents who have contributed to help all of the athletes make their way overseas.

This morning the varsity had a really encouraging row that exhibited some of the relaxation and ease of movement that had been lacking in the past four weeks. The second varsity should rebound with a sharper row this afternoon.

Women's Race Schedule for 4/26/08

Bus departs at 6:30 AM from Trinity
Coxswains meeting at 8:00 AM
W1V 9:00 AM UVM / Wesleyan / Bowdoin / Trinity / Clark
W2V8 9:10 AM UVM / Trinity
WN8 9:20 AM UVM / Conn College / Trinity
W3V4 10:10 AM - Trinity 'A' / Bowdoin / Trinity 'B' / Conn College
W2V4 10:30 AM WPI / Conn College / Trinity / Clark / Bowdoin
WV4 10:40 AM Trinity / Wesleyan / Conn College / Bowdoin / Clark

Bus will depart as soon after racing as possible to return to the boathouse for off-loading and rigging. Back on campus in time for brunch.

Forecast is cool temperatures in the 50s and an easterly crosswind of up to 11 mph.

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th Race Schedule

Saturday April 19th
We will depart campus on a 7:30 AM bus for the following race schedule:
11:20 AM - WV8+ (Vassar, UNH, Trinity, Bates, WPI)
11:40 AM - W2V8+ (Bates, UNH, Vassar, Trinity)
12:00 PM - WN8+ (Trinity, Vassar, UNH)
12:20 PM - WV4+ (Bates, Trinity)

We'll aim to depart Worcester by 1:20 PM to get back to campus.

Sunday April 20th
We will depart campus on a 6:30 AM bus for the following race schedule
9:00 AM - WV8+ (MIT, Holy Cross, Trinity)
9:10 AM - W2V8+ (Trinity, Holy Cross, MIT)
9:30 AM - WN8+ (MIT, Trinity, Holy Cross)
10:10 AM - WV4+ (MIT, Holy Cross, Trinity, MIT)

We'll aim to depart Worcester by 11:00 AM to meet the trailer at the boathouse for unloading and re-rigging.

***Please note that the first crew listed is in lane one and so forth***

Ready for Quinsig

We're heading to Lake Quinsigamond tomorrow morning to race against Smith College and Mount Holyoke. The racing will begin at 8:20 and be finished by 9:40 AM. The river conditions have made rowing incredibly challenging in East Hartford with the Connecticut River being extremely high due to snow melt up north and some rain in the vicinity.

Now that we're finally approaching racing on a buoyed course it should be a blast to see how well we can execute our plan!

I look forward to seeing Friends of the program at the lake. We'll be boating out of the Donahue Rowing Center.
http://www.qra.org/regattas/lanes.lasso?racedate=2008-04-12

Take Back the Night

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
SAY NO TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE
ON CAMPUS

Thursday, APRIL 10 6:30 p.m.

CAVE PATIO
Mather Hall

Sponsored by:
Sexual Assault Task Force (SATF), Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC), Peer Educators Advocating Campus Health (PEACH), Asian American Student Association (AASA), and Zeta Omega Eta