The crews met at the Henley Rowing Club for our final row out of that establishment before moving camp to the Henley Women's Regatta course. Many thanks to Mervyn Theaker for coordinating our stay at the club - it's a very easy place to boat out of and one that I would recommend to others if they needed an alternative to the Upper Thames Rowing Club.The 2V and 1V completed a competitive bit of work at controlled ratings and alternating intensities over the distance with the intent to really ingrain the landmarks and vagaries of the course into the minds of the coxswains. The head wind was blowing pretty strongly and unfortunately we had an injury recurrence in the varsity eight that may keep the athlete out for the next few days. I'm optimistic that with proper treatment she'll be ready to go for this weekend's racing. The 2V also did a short starting sequence brush with Bucknell's 2V and it helped us identify some other areas that we can improve upon as we get closer to putting it on the line on Saturday.
This has been the first day where it has been really dark and gloomy (very England-like as one coach on the bike path put it) and it can take a little bit of the shine off of having an afternoon off.
Lunch today at the old Francesco's Cafe - excellent cappucino and spaghetti napolitano...dinner shortly at the Rowbarge Pub for a return engagement.
Challenge 1: Avoiding the afternoon nap
Challenge 2: Having enough cox box chargers
Challenge 3: Finding the missing remote for our video camera
Challenge 4: Keeping bike tires filled while on the coaching bike path
