Camp has finished bring on Munich!

We finished our camp yesterday even though we thought we had one day left. Coaches gave us today off to do some running around, some had doctors appointments, physio appointments, changing money and posting things home.

It was very exciting yesterday in a number of ways! We had a very short session in the morning just to blow away the cob webs and then in the afternoon we had a 500m time trial. This is half the distance we have to race. We went up against the TA double, Kathryn Ross and John McLean, silver medallists at last years World Championships. We didn't have the best start as we were too close to the buoys but we were able to pull it together and had a fantastic race piece. We clocked 1:53 over the 500 and we all believed that had we had a better start we would have broken the 1:50 barrier. This is right where we want to be.

Then after our training session we had a team meeting with Adam Horner who is the Adaptive Rowing co-ordinator for Australia. At this point he presented us with our Australian Team gear! So it was very exciting to have the shirts, track suits, hats and zooties with AUS written all over them. It brought home to us that this is really happening. We have all put the hard work in over the last few months and we truly believe that we will be able to go over to Munich and win this event.

Lisa's (our cox) dad arrived yesterday and was able to see us row. I think he was impressed! He joined us for dinner along with Dom Moneypenny and to celebrate our going to Munich Dom made us a pavlova! Not a great food for training, but by god it was good! We had a fantastic night and are now just itching to get on the plane.

Tonight we have a huge dinner with all the Adaptive rowers, coaches, parents & partners (who are here) and RA staff. We head to the airport tomorrow at 11am to leave Sydney at 2:20 pm. So the next time I add to this blog will be when we arrive in Munich.