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ISSUE 4 - June 2010
Four days of finals at Karapiro
There's a change to the regatta format at the Rowing World Championships recently announced by governing body FISA. Instead of being first on, if I am lucky enough to make the final I will be racing on the Sunday afternoon as the regatta builds to a climax after eight days. Semis will be on the Friday, when there will also be some finals for spectators to enjoy.
My racing schedule
The 2010 International season is underway and I head off for the following regattas on June 11th.
World Cup Munich 18-20 June;
Henley Royal Regatta 30 June - 4 July;
World Cup Lucerne 9-11 July.
Rowing World Championships Karapiro, October 31-November 7.
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| Final preparations going well |
 | It has been a wee while since I have put out my last newsletter. There has not much to inform you all about over the last couple of months. Just a lot of hours and kilometres training on the water, 'sitting on my butt going backwards' as we like to say, and in the gym 'throwing around the tin'!
A weekend ago though New Zealand Rowing held a Winter Series Regatta. These are held roughly monthly predominantly as in-house racing practice amongst the New Zealand crews, but is also open to any crews that would like to have a race and/or take on a NZ crew. Boats of similar speeds with in some cases a bit of handy capping race off against each other. Finish times are ranked with a prognostic time.
To the uninitiated, a prognostic time is a boat's finish time as a percentage of that boats World Best Time. This is done so that all boats regardless of their size can be compare to one another to see who went fastest. So.. if a gold medal or world best time is your 100% mark, then getting close to that or above it is what you are looking for.
I had a good regatta. I was top prognostic for both races on Friday with the woman's pair 2nd, the men's double 3rd in both those races. On Saturday I was 3rd behind the men's double and men's lightweight double. On Sunday I was 6th fastest. I felt that I had a good race and was going as fast as in the previous races, just other New Zealand crews went faster.
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| Heading back to Henley |
 | t is now just nine days until I head to Europe with the Elite team on the 11th of June to compete at the second World Cup Rowing regatta in Munich, Germany; the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley Upon Thames, England and the third World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland. I am away for just over a month for this trip before returning home to continue preparing for the World Rowing Championships in November.
The crews coached by Dick Tonks, minus Mahe, have already arrived in Europe to compete at the 1st World Rowing Cup in Bled, Slovenia. The reason for this is to check out the facilities there ahead of Bled being the venue of the World Championships in 2011.
Mahe has remained at home to continue to recover from his back injury and will be travelling with the rest of the team on the 11th of July. This group had good results last weekend with the men's world champion pair winning their event and Emma securing a second place finish in the women's single.
I am looking forward to the trip, and having another crack at the Diamond Sculls at the Henley -
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