Race update

Thursday was 1000 meter race day. The US did well.

My team the Premiere Women, made the Grand Final in our first heat. We had an awesome race, the boat felt tight, and we were nice and relaxed and strong right to the finish.

On to the Grand Final... it had rained for most of the afternoon and then the winds picked up, as we are at the foot of the Blue Mountains. We took our place on the line; the starter called "are you ready" and all the boats were pushed off course by the cross winds, so we backed up, and approached the start again. The winds were still pushing us a bit sideways, we were in the start, the starter called "are you ready" and again we were crooked, our drummer put her hand up to signal we were not aligned but the starter called, "attention", "go", right away so we were off, we straightened fairly quickly and stayed with the pack of boats, there were 6 boats in the grand final. We kept with the pack and the finish was really close between, Canada, Great Britain and China, US Premiere Women took fourth. But all in all a good tight race. We have a solid chance to medal in the 500m on Saturday and the 200m on Sunday.

The US premiere men took the Gold, in their 1000m event, which was awesome, and the Masters men took Bronze in their race.

US Master's women went on to the minor final, and both the A & B boat had a nice race. Maybe Jenny will give her perspective on those races??