Henley Day 8

Hard to believe that we've only been rowing together a week - have packed in the sessions and am pretty proud of getting the boat to where it is now. But it's pretty obvious that physically we're undersized and likely undertrained to make a big impact.
Listed to Yale come through FIT on regatta radio  and went to the enclosure for a very short amount of time then back to St. Andrews for sleep and chill out time.

Warmed up similarly to yesterday and was very prepared for a tough race. We were ahead at the island and the Barrier by 2 seats and then a weed patch, wake, and bobble hit us and we lost our rhythm...felt short again and maybe too high but that's likely because Combined Services was pouring the pressure on. They pulled to about a full length up and we made a good push where I still felt like we had the chance to take it (4-5 seat move)...I'm not sure we ever made a decisive strike but they ended up winning by a length.

We were pretty disappointed afterwards but very thankful for the opportunity - not sure what to think really other than that we probably earned our result...The equation of practice, age, fitness, and weight probably didn't help us and perhaps it was hubris to think that we could make it to Friday again with 7 days of rowing together. Questions we'll have to answer later on I suppose.

More to come later.