Last night it stormed, I could hear things being blown over in the street below....
When the ladies from the K4 took the bus at 6 am this morning, it was pouring. Some how the weather cleared and it's turned out to be a brilliantly warm ‘still ish’ day. The course here often has a side wind making the far lanes a little choppier and keeping lane 9 quieter.... Lucky lane 9. I am sure this will come into play at somestage over the weekend but haven't seen it yet.
Bridge pulled her ‘usual stunt’ this morning and won her heat taking her straight through to the finals for K1 1000m. She makes it look so easy, and had a brilliant, well paced race. Both Len and Nick also paddled well in their heats to come 5th and 4th respectively in their semi finals, putting them both in the K1 1000m B final tomorrow. Looking at their times, Nick would have been placed in the A final had he been in a different semi. His semi was particularly loaded with the likes of British Olympic 1000m champion, Tim Bradants, Olympic 500m Champion Ken Wallace from Aus and double silver world champs medallist last year, Anders Gustafsson... to name a few.
The mens K4 has had a potent transformation since Vichy, and are much more competitive and are through to the B final tomorrow. While the girls K4 felt great on the water and learnt a lot from the race where they placed 9th and are motivated for more.
Watch this space for this afternoons activities and down loaded pics.
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