After qualifying for Junior Worlds on Lake Mercer, the Long Beach Junior Heavy 2- is up in Craftsbury for the next three weeks leading up to their trip to Hamburg, Germany. The crew is composed of Allen Reitz and Luke Khoury, coached by Tom Graves (brother of GRP scullers John and Peter Graves). We started Thursday off with 40 and 50 stroke pieces and it was nice having a boat or closer speed next to us to work off of. Since trials most of the rowers still in Craftsbury have been going out in singles. For practices involving pieces a double has been thrown together for us to compete against. Now that the junior pair is here, it will make it easier to find competition on the water. Hopefully both crews will benefit from rowing alongside each other.
Going into this afternoon we will be rowing in the weekly "Head of the Hosmer" (2.7k). We a praying for favorable winds, as it seems like every week conditions are blustery.
This blog follows the progress and training of the 2014 U23 Double, competing at the U23 World Championships in Varese, Italy. The boat, from Craftsbury Sculling Center, is composed of Erik Frid and Walter Banfield. Our coaches are Steve Dani and Dan Roock. We are raising funds for our trip to Italy. Any donation will help. See our page here or click the link in the sidebar: http://natrowing.donorpages.com/USAUnder23NationalTeam2014/U23MensDouble/
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