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March 7, 08
Just moved from Deland to Winter Park FL. The Canadian double that I've
been training with moved there training camp to Oak Ridge Tennessee and I
am now with a US lightweight double who share similar hopes for Beijing.
We are training were the Winter Park high school train on Lake Howel.
The facilities here are nice and the Lake is equip with a 1500 meter
buoyed course. Training is going well and I feel like my strength and boat
speed are improving from week to week. We did a 2000 meter time trial on
the water the other day which I posted a time of 6:58. If my speed coach
is calibrated correctly I should be in solid form coming into the first
selection regatta the second weekend of April.
Jan 08-
As the note into my public diary I
just wanted to mention a couple of things to my
friends around the country, to say Thank you for
helping me get to where I am and to help as I
continue training this winter, spring and
summer. I really appreciate the people who
I have met and who have given me help as I keep
my sights on the goal ahead.
The process of becoming a sculler started
a long time ago, well before I started rowing
with my Dad being a coach for national and
Olympic teams it is hard not to think about it.
I enjoyed a lot of sports in high school and got
pretty good at running cross country but after I
graduated from High School I got to big and
turned to the boat.
The past couple of years have been great
and I have been to Europe racing and getting to
line up with Tufte was incredible. I will
certainly never forget that race. Now I
have more experience and more training and
hopefully better results to come.
2008 started with me training at GMS in
Connecticut and then heading out to Colorado
Springs with the US Training Center athletes and
coaches, hiking in the mountains, cross-country
skiing, erging, lifting and eating pretty much
took care of most of the day. I left
altitude and went straight to Deland Florida to
get back to water training in my 1x and had a
great time working the long rows and doing a
little coaching at my Dad's camp. Good
people, good times, and good rowing.
Mid January I was able to meet some of
the athletes in the Canadian system and am now
training with the carded Lightweight Women's 2x
which is incredible. Fast boat that helps
me go fast. good time when we are off the
water too, friends to talk to about life and
take a few minutes a day off rowing is fun.
Check out the photos of our 'motorized' tour up
to blue springs on the photo page.
More Later- Peace
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