Head of the Lake
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nwhikerOMG, such a good day.
Found a parking spot, found a viewing spot, got a short walk in and...
Saw Perry weave his way through a bunch of Women's masters 8s, barely missing one (*), row by us, and head out into Lake Washington where he eventually crossed the finish line...
... and ended up with a second place finish! I don't know if there will be a medal (he had to deal with boats for a regatta next weekend so he didn't go hunting one down), but eh, second place!
After Perry's race we had a bit over an hour before Anne-Chloe's so I'd planned on a walk. My MIL insisted on coming with us, so not enough steps were done, and we went slowly, AND had to deal with her complaining about something the whole way, but we did get to take a nice short time on the Arboretum trail by the side of the lake. I was hoping to get as far as Fox Point, but we had to get back. Got some good, if very different from our usual, views of the race course.
So Anne-Chloe. She came down the course in their 4, and they actually looked pretty good! They ended up placing 4th!
A few photos Linnea took, and one of AC's boat taken from the Montlake Bridge.
(*) Coming through the cut, the men's singles caught up with the women's Masters 8s. Note that this isn't unexpected, a men's single should be about as fast as an equivalent's women's four or quad. The boat being passed needs to yield. What we had: Perry trying to pass an 8, while he was already working on passing another single, and that single was passing another 8. So on a diagonal, with Perry having the right of way, there were two singles and two 8s. Perry, lucky for him, is very deft with his boat and was able to avoid clashing oars with one of the 8s who couldn't really yield any further because of the traffic from the other direction, boats headed back to the start line and the single and the other 8 didn't have much room either. It was very tight, but they all made it through, but it truly was only luck that got them all out without any oars tapping.
Found a parking spot, found a viewing spot, got a short walk in and...
Saw Perry weave his way through a bunch of Women's masters 8s, barely missing one (*), row by us, and head out into Lake Washington where he eventually crossed the finish line...
... and ended up with a second place finish! I don't know if there will be a medal (he had to deal with boats for a regatta next weekend so he didn't go hunting one down), but eh, second place!
After Perry's race we had a bit over an hour before Anne-Chloe's so I'd planned on a walk. My MIL insisted on coming with us, so not enough steps were done, and we went slowly, AND had to deal with her complaining about something the whole way, but we did get to take a nice short time on the Arboretum trail by the side of the lake. I was hoping to get as far as Fox Point, but we had to get back. Got some good, if very different from our usual, views of the race course.
So Anne-Chloe. She came down the course in their 4, and they actually looked pretty good! They ended up placing 4th!
A few photos Linnea took, and one of AC's boat taken from the Montlake Bridge.
(*) Coming through the cut, the men's singles caught up with the women's Masters 8s. Note that this isn't unexpected, a men's single should be about as fast as an equivalent's women's four or quad. The boat being passed needs to yield. What we had: Perry trying to pass an 8, while he was already working on passing another single, and that single was passing another 8. So on a diagonal, with Perry having the right of way, there were two singles and two 8s. Perry, lucky for him, is very deft with his boat and was able to avoid clashing oars with one of the 8s who couldn't really yield any further because of the traffic from the other direction, boats headed back to the start line and the single and the other 8 didn't have much room either. It was very tight, but they all made it through, but it truly was only luck that got them all out without any oars tapping.
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