Quick update!...Last weekend, 4-5th June, we raced at the Metropolitan Regatta, at Dorney Lake. I raced an eight on both days, and a four on saturday. We all had a brilliant weekend's racing, and I came away with two Gold's and a second place. We won the Elite Eights event on both saturday and sunday, and my four came second on the saturday. We divided the eight into two fours, and the other four from our eight won our event. All our events were straight finals which was frustrating because it meant we didn't get to race for lanes. If heats have to be run then they draw the semi/finals according to the heat results. So the fastest crews have the best lanes, according to the weather conditions. The conditions were pretty nasty for the higher numbered lanes due to a massive cross wind, and in our fours we had the north sea in lane 7 whilst the opposing four of our eight has lake placid in lane one! Despite our upset at being beaten in such unfair conditions, we were very pleased that both fours came out top in the event, and it gives us much confidence for the eight as a whole.
Elite eight winners Saturday. L-R Leonora Kennedy, Erica Bodman, Monica Relph, Vicky Meyer-Laker, Lucinda Gooderham, Georgie Hazell, Laura Wheeler, Zoe Lee and Zoe De Toledo (cox)
Elite eights winners Sunday. L-R: Zoe de Toledo (cox), Leonora Kennedy, Monica Relph, Erica Bodman, Vicky Meyer-Laker, Lucinda Gooderham, Georgie Hazell, Laura Wheeler, Zoe Lee
After last weekend's racing we had this weekend off racing, and were able to get some solid training done. We are racing the next three weekends in different combinations of the eight. I am very pleased to have been put into each variation of the crew. Firstly, next weekend on the 18-19th June we have Henley Women's Regatta. We have been given a bye in the first round, so will only be racing on the sunday in the semi final, and hopefully final! Princeton have sent three crews over, so it looks like they will provide us with some pretty stiff competition.
The following weekend we are racing in Amsterdam at the Holland-Bekker Regatta. The Canadian and Dutch senior teams have both entered their eights at Amsterdam so this is going to give us some top class international racing, which is very exciting.
The following weekend, we are racing at Henley Royal Regatta. Many countries will send their top senior eight, including Great Britain. The racing here is always very tough and it will be interesting to see how far we can get.
At home, Battlecat is growing by the day and remains curious, playful and completely mad!
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