More to come on this later especially after a relatively sleepless night pondering what just happened...but the long and the short of it is we did not qualify for the Remenham Challenge Cup at HRR. About thirty strokes into the qualifying race our five seat's oar snapped about six inches up from the blade and we were left to row with seven blades for the remainder of the race. The qualifying times that we recorded unofficially compared to our times in practice and compared to crews that we raced at the Henley Women's Regatta were very favorable so the event stings a little more.I'd like to discuss the emotions that come up when something like this happens in such an equipment intensive sport - but I'll have to do so later.
We are rowing to the Reading Town Regatta to compete in either a coxed four or senior 3 men's eight category. More to come later and thanks again for reading and following our progress during this incredible season.
