Day One of Camp

Well we have finished our first day of camp and it went really well! It was probably the best row we have had on the first day of a camp. It usually takes us a day to get ourselves together as most of us train with others. But this morning was pretty good. Even Pedro (head coach of Adaptive rowing in Australia) stated that it was the best he had ever seen us row. We have had a couple of better rows at camps in Canberra, so hopefully we can show him even better skills come the end of the week.

Everyone seems much more relaxed than we were at the last camp and it certainly does show in our rowing. We had a fairly easy row this morning as Brandie is still dealing with a rib injury and we don't want it to get any worse. But she was able to do the whole workout without too much trouble. We had a young girl by the name of Alison (from Nepean rowing club) come and cox for us and she did a great job. Lisa won't be arriving until tomorrow afternoon, so Alison will cox for us until she is here.

We had an relaxing day and headed back to SIRC (Sydney International Rowing Centre) for our afternoon session. Brandie was advised to only do one session a day until Thursday, so we were lucky enough to have Alison's sister Robyn jump in Bow seat for us. I'm not sure she realized what she was getting herself into, as this afternoon was definitely harder and longer than this morning! We did a few good stepped pieces over 2000 metres and I think she was very happy to get out of the boat in the end.

So day one is out of the way and we are all very happy with how the boat feels. Hopefully it can only get better. We are about to have a team dinner again...in cafe Le Carol!