NSR I

A my second NSR I, I finished 13th overall, winning the C-Final and improving by 9 places over last year. I am very proud of my result, although I want more and will continue to work until I am finishing 1st. I had a shaky time trial, barely making the cut to progress by only 1/100th of a second. My heat was fast (arguably the fastest, but weather makes that tough to determine), and my final was strong. I have made huge leaps and bounds over the last 12 months and I think I will continue to see more. Now I am looking for the next step. My top choice is to hook up with a partner in Seattle and go for the Pan Am light double. My second choice would be to relocate to OKC and make a big boat there, and while I would prefer to scull, my interest in a 4x camp is strongly depended on what kind of support I can find financially. I am very excited for the summer.

This week I am headed to Brentwood with Holy Names Academy for our first big regional speed test of the Spring. I am pretty pumped up about my light 8+. as it has shown tremendous growth in speed since SDCC.

On a non-rowing note, I am at the do-or-die point in deciding whether or not to return to graduate school at U of Oregon. I hope I can hear back from some of my contacts so I know what my summer schedule will look like. I don't want to stop racing!!

SDCC Lighties

Everybody out of the boat!

Rowing Montage

A few clips from my preparations for the 2011 NSR I.

San Diego and Erg Movement

This weekend, we took the Holy Names Academy team down to San Diego Crew Classic where they face some stiff competition and threw down their best races yet. Our Varsity 8+ finished 11th, the same position as last year, the Junior Varsity 8+ finished 11th, two places back from last year, and our Light 8+ finished 6th, a first showing for HNA at this regatta. It seems as though the athletes rose to their highest level - they were technically proficient and rowed to exhaustion. We have the greatest depth in athletic talent that we have had in years, so this leads me to scratch my head and wonder how it is we are so far back on the curve. We will be tinkering with training and rigging throughout the next 7 weeks in the lead up to Regional Championships.

Today, I hit my PR on a 2K erg test and at a lower weight than I usually train at. Pretty jazzed about this, especially so close to NSR I and II. I plan on being on fire in Princeton this year.

Hope to get some pictures up soon from this weekend. I am super proud of the girls and had a great time down there - San Diego is always such a pleasant getaway at this time of the year.