As you will be reading this I will be arriving in Hamburg, Germany with the first half of the team to compete in the second FISA World Cup this coming weekend and start a three month tour. This group includes the men's and women's singles and pairs, men's heavy and lightweight doubles, women's quad and men's four as well as myself.
The rest of the team made up of the women's heavy and lightweight doubles, men's quad and men's eight will join this first group in early July in Lucerne, Switzerland for the 3rd and final World Cup.
The last three months since the elite team trials have been good ones. I have been able to do some solid training and a lot of kilometres up and down Lake Karapiro. I have had some very promising long-distance and 2km racing prognostics with the majority of them in the top three of the entire squad and a couple of times knocking the men's pair, Eric and Hamish, off their top spot.
This year’s tour for me encompasses two World Cup regattas in Hamburg and Lucerne with three weeks of training in-between at a rowing course in Gravellines, France situated on the French coast between Calais and Dunkirk.
After the final World Cup regatta the team goes into camp for five weeks in Mechlin in Belgium before the main event, the 2011 Rowing World Championships in Bled, Slovenia that run over the end of August and the beginning of September.
For results and regatta updates go to www.worldrowing.com.
