This is the Princeton Boat House and it is gorgeous. The open weight US Women's team trains out of here and invited us to do pieces. They are pretty powerful ladies:
Some of them are pretty intimidating:
Of course, this all just made us more stoked that we were getting to race them! We did a 1500m piece, 1000m piece, and 500m piece against the women's 8 and quad (they gave us a lead). The first piece was so-so, but the last two were pretty awesome...we held off the quad on the last piece and we hit some good splits for a LW4x.
I think the "highlight" was probably when we did our first power strokes during the warm-up. All of the sudden the water was flourescent. I thought, for a second, maybe I was in one of these places:
But it turned out it was just this stuff
Unfortunately, the green algae "highlighted" all over my new white national team uni. So, aside from my now pending date with the Oxyclean container, I had a great time! Tom invited us to hang out on the Princeton side of things, until the women leave for Germany. So we will be avoiding the hectic pre-race prep happening at Mercer Lake (which is gearing up for PanAm Trials). Thanks Tom!
After a long week of hard work, we were pretty tired by the end of the practice, but we still managed to smile for the camera:
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