Camp Continues

Well today was the fourth day of our camp and we have all been getting a bit tired. We have had 3 sessions a day and the boat is definitely coming together. I think that every time we get part of it right, we then have to work on something else! It is certainly a never ending process!

We did a lot of work with race pace pieces this morning, getting the boat up to race pace fast. I think that we were all pretty happy with the outcome, we were finally able to pull the stroke rate up and we have now worked out what rate works best for us as a crew.

In between our sessions this morning we sat at the finish line and cheered on the Australian Junior crews who were simulating a heat race for their World Championship campaign which starts next week in France. We were quite impressed with how they looked and we will be there tomorrow cheering them on for their final race! It is amazing to see the up and coming new crop of rowers for Australia and I am sure that we will hear about some of them in the future. It has been a pleasure being included in the Juniors camp and being able to share dinner with them each night. We have been included in the daily wrap up of how training went every day and it is interesting to hear that some of the crews concentrate on the same things that we do. It proves we aren’t much different to Able Bodied crews.

We were given the afternoon off this afternoon and it gave us some time to recharge the batteries. A few of us went to the new Harry Potter movie, it was a nice change just to sit and watch! We also had a few laughs which I believe was certainly needed as we are all trying so hard to put this crew together that we needed to lighten the mood up. Lisa decided she would try and walk like Pete which was quite a funny spectacle, the two of them limping at the same time.


With only two days left of this camp it is hard to believe that in just over a week we will be back here for our staging camp before heading to Europe. With about three weeks of training left before the World Championships I am sure that we will prove to ourselves that we have the speed to mix it with the best. We will all be giving 110% in each training session, it’s the only way!