This weekend was the first weekend of racing in the fall racing season. Basically for the next six weeks I will have races every weekend. This last weekend was Head of the Fraser Fours in Richmond and the Deep Cove Classic in Deep Cove.
The fraser fours was a race we had been training specifically for for over three months. On the day of we had borrowed a 4+ from St. George’s high school. Since they are high school kids, the boat was made for smaller light high school kids, so our guys who are 6′ 5″ couldn’t get their full leg drive.
Still we managed to get 92.4% of olympic gold medal standard. For that we were quite happy.
The next day I raced in Deep Cove, an image of the course is below:
We started at the bottom, went around Jugg Island and then raced to North of the Yacht club. It was a 5 km race and there were 8 entries in my category, the Open Men’s Single.
As you can see from the results (I am SFU(A)):
I came second in my category. Only 2 seconds behind the guy from Washington. And he is from University of Washington, the top rowing school for guys in the World, and he raced at World Cup last year on the Canadian National team. So I don’t feel too bad about 2nd place behind a rower of that level.
There is also a good gap between me and 3rd place.
