After a long day of napping and movie watching following our race yesterday we all woke up this morning feeling refreshed and ready to prove ourselves once again in our second day match against The Hampton School. After quickly eating a light breakfast we left from the Coleman's house at about 9:10 and began a warm-up jog down to the race course. We arrived at the boat tents around 9:30, leaving ourselves 25 minutes to stretch out and complete our pre-race routine. After going over our race plan with Coach Lamb and saying a quick prayer, we shoved from the dock at 9:55. After a focused row on the water we pulled up to our stake boat at 10:30 and settled in for the longest five minutes of any of our lives as we waited for the race to begin.
After what seemed like an eternity the Umpire finally gave the start command and we were off. Although we had a strong start today, it was clear at the end of Temple Island that we were racing a stronger crew seeing as we only had a couple seats on them. However, once we settled into our base rating of 34 spm we began to walk away from The Hampton School much more quickly and 400 meters into the race we reached their bowball. At the Barrier (600 m.) we had obtained a two length lead over them and Kyle called for our first down shift of the race (to 30 spm). By Fawley (1000 m.) we had a 3 length lead over our opponent and again Kyle called for another shift, bringing the rate down to 26 spm where we stayed until we reached Hole in the Wall (1800 m.) where we again shifted down to 24 spm to finish the race. The final verdict for the race was that we "easily" beat The Hampton School.
Looking ahead to our race tomorrow, we will race either St. Edward's School or Eton College. It will most likely be Eton College who is also a seated team and ranked the second best team in England after losing to Shrewsbury by .1 seconds at English Nationals. Eton College is also the proud alma mater of both Prince Harry and William. The race will most likely be later in the day because if we were to race Eton they would want it to be the prime time event seeing as we are both seated schools.
We appreciate your support.
Love,
The Prep V8
11 comments:
Yeah Prep!
Best of luck. Thanks for keeping all of your fans updated. The blog is so much fun to read...I feel like I am there with you all.
Well done Prep! Thanks for the inside perspective, we all appreciate you providing the connection to your Prep family on the web. Now go get 'em!
God bless
Prep alum
Go Prep Go.
It will be sweet revenge for the 2005 boat who lost in the finals to Eton. Beat Eton tomorro!!! Win the race for Coach Lombardi and the V9 from 05.
How exciting! You all should be so proud of how far you have come. You are truly a special group of young men who are representing The Prep very well and deserve to win Henley! Keep calm and keep rowing to a victory! God bless.
The Savage Family
Great job so far, guys! We are all rooting for you. Watching every update. Now - Dig deep!
Become all that you are! The best.
BEAT ETON!!!
Henley Parent '05
BEAT EATON!! American Muscle Baby!
Totally awsome.
Many blessings on all of you - you have made us all so very proud - we are with you in prayer and spirit...never, never give up you have worked so hard and waited so long for this, come home and leave your names on the trophy.
Keep calm and the Blessed Mother will guide you through the water.
God Bless all of you.
Thanks, we wait patiently for the updates.
GO PREP ......
What better day than the Fourth of July to beat the royal British school! Great job thus far!
love,
Betsy (Jimmy's sister
KUDOS FROM ACROSS THE POND!!!
YEAH PREP
Thanks for the updates and best of luck against Eton. We're all cheering for you back home.
July 3, 2005- Eton College goes 6:55 winning by 1 length over St. Joseph's Prep, USA. Go get some.
Gennaro
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