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/
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Tuesday afternoon
On Tuesday afternoon we did a quick lap of the course practicing some starts and race pace. It all felt good and we are ready to go on Thursday. Also, Heat sheets were released by the time we got back to the dock. We are in the first heat at 10:30 Italian time in one of the middle lanes. We get to go up against Russia, South Africa, Latvia, and Spain. It will be a tough race. One boat scratched from our event making it a 20 boat event, which means that now the top 2 boats from heats goes straight to the A/B semi-final. The opening ceremony was also that afternoon. It was help in the garden of a palace in the city. It mostly involved an orchestra and quire playing a bunch of songs including all the major songs from Pirates of the Caribbean.
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