This weekend we are in Princeton, NJ participating in Elite Nationals. We will only be racing Canada because Brazil could not get Visa's to participate. We are staying in a hotel abotu 20 minutes from the race course- Mercer Lake. They are having the US Olympic trials for the small boats here. The scullers are extremely nice and quite athletic from what I can tell.
Friday we practices twice. The AM workout was 3x10 minute plus 45' of steady state. Practice was at 1:00pm. The temperature was 85 or 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The boat felt pretty good but Tracy is starting to get sick. She is blowing her nose like crazy and has taken a decongestant medicine. By the end of the row I was dizzy and lightheaded. Probably an indication of dehydration.
Friday afternoon we spent under the tree out of the sun. We went back to a juice bar for food and then back to the hotel so Tracy could get a shower and quickly headed back tot he course for a team meeting. At 6:30 we were launching again for our second practice.
PM practice on Friday was mostly practicing high strokes and starts. We did 2x250m pieces practicing the first 1/4 of the race. The start is a 3/4, 1/2, 3/4, full and lengthen stroke. It is a fast start and the same one I did at Purdue. The high strokes we hope to get a 40 strokes per minute and hold that for 20 strokes. It was much cooler in the evening and there was a chance of severe thunderstorms but they never crossed our path.
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