Today was by far the warmest day which we have had thus far. We woke up to a 15 degree morning, though cloudy. Only one row was scheduled for today, with the afternoon set off for exploring Atlanta
Even though it was only one workout, it was a pretty hard workout, designed to be a sort of miniature regatta, with two 2km races to be done. The first race was done time trial style, and the second one was done in two flights of three, seeded from the results of the first one. Time trialing proved to be fun as the wind decided to rise up spectacularly and suddenly during the middle of the piece and as if to further spite us, it decided to be a headwind. This caused a fair annoyance to most crews, however we fought through the wind to finish off the piece. Fortunately, Dan decided to make change the direction of the second piece, so that we would be able to race with the tail wind. A good decision this turned out to be because the wind was strong enough to cause waves; which for those of you who raced NRC’s this year, would seem small. Suffice to say we successfully completed the workout.
After the workout, we were informed that we had ‘volunteered’ to help out around the boathouse here a as a thank you for loaning us boats to use this week. A good idea, and a nice thing for us to do, considering the hospitality we have received this week. The first bit of work seemed fairly standard boathouse style work, move boat trailers around into different places. But then we ended up moving some – and by some I mean a few kms worth, of pool lane ropes. Also, this work was preceded by the person in charge saying “I hope y’all aren’t afraid of Black Widows.” Huh. Alright then. We proceeded anyway, and fortunately we didn’t see, and no one got bitten by any Black Widows.
The afternoon was the more interesting part of the day, where initially many people were interested in going to the Atlanta Aquarium. It ended up being Claudia, Vanessa and I (and in the confusion, we might have accidentally left Matt, which we are really really sorry about (actually)) who actually went to the aquarium. This proved to be quite the experience, most of the exhibits were cool, but I think the one which took the cake for us was the ocean exhibit with the walk through ‘glass’ tunnel. This exhibit was a massive tank containing many different types of fish, but especially important was the Manta Rays and Whale Sharks (one of two aquariums in the world with these animals). There are a bunch of pictures which I don’t have yet, but hope to be able to post some of the better ones later (and maybe I’ll include a few rowing pictures).
The ones who did not go to the Aquarium in the afternoon went out to a local outlet mall, and it was relatively mundane, lets face it, it’s a mall. And also I haven’t really talked to anyone about it except to hear ‘it was alright’.
Exciting news! Below is a link to a you tube video from our trip. It is a ten times speed time lapse of our cat six row from ‘a few strokes of bliss’. The camera was attached to the bow of my boat, unfortunately there is no sound track right now, though I am accepting suggestions for a music track. Enjoy!
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