Gettin' Outta Town!

With a perfect evening of glassy water here at Samish, we are all packing, cleaning, and furiously running around the house trying to track down lost heart rate monitor straps, eating apple after apple (we had about 20 to eat up as of yesterday), and putting our bags on the scale with crossed fingers that they aren't over 50 lbs (they of course always are).

The entries are in as of this morning and it looks to be a group of talented athletes from around the world that should produce some great racing.  Click here for the quad's entry list and here for the double's entry list.  For those of you who are new to rowing and as we head into the big races, a few clarifications: "LW4x" denotes the lightweight women's quad and "LW2x" is the lightweight women's double.  Racing starts for the double on Sunday October 31 at 10:17 am.  Translated into U.S. time, that's 2:17 pm on October 30th on the west coast, 5:17 pm on the east coast.  Confusing!!

Once we get to NZ, we'll be updating this blog with links to results and video streams of the racing, so keep checkin' back!

As a final note, many of our friends/teammates/college teams are racing at the Head of the Charles in Boston this weekend.  GOOD LUCK to all those racing.  We're hoping it's better weather than last year's sleet and snow!