If you ever happen to be in Amsterdam around mid-June and feel like experiencing a really great regatta, definitely come check out the Holland Beker! We just finished a weekend of racing in the W2x, both on Saturday and Sunday, and overall the racing ended up successful! We got faster throughout the weekend, and learned a lot, which was the goal of this weekend--to get race experience that will set us up well for the upcoming World Cup in Lucerne!
Because of the recent E.coli outbreak in Germany, several international crews opted to skip out on World Cup #2 in Hamburg (which took place two weekends ago), and come to the Holland Beker instead! So, lucky for us, we got to race against some of the fastest LW2x crews in the world: Great Britain (World Cup #1 winners), Canada (last year's world champs), and the Dutch crew.
After several races where we just couldn't get our bow out in front in the first 500m, Sunday's final put an end to that pattern as we led the race through the halfway point. Great Britain fought back, and overtook us in the second 1000m for the win. We held on for 2nd, and were pleased with the result, knowing that we have more gears to develop for when we face them again in two weeks!
It was fun to represent Lake Union Crew, and be right up there amidst GB, Canada, and the Netherlands!
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| Abby and Ursula at the Bosbaan in Amsterdam |
Next stop...Lucerne World Cup!!
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