I'm very pooped out so this will have to be a brief recap. This morning we did 12 x 250m against the senior team, who were in 2 8s and a straight 4. I thought we did well for ourselves, hanging tough on all, beating one boat on a few pieces, and beating both boats on the last piece. One senior guy proved his reputation by talking shit and getting pretty threatened by us, resulting in his accusing us of "starting half a length up" when in fact it was the boat he was stroking that was pretty high on the rate. Mike Teti helped him understand this. After practice Mike told our boat "good job" and the morning passed with no snide comments from him, which surprised us all.
Callahan and Topher seemed pleased with the pieces as well. On a side note, we found out tonight that Callahan has been given the Men’s Head Coaching position at UW, with Bob Ernst returning to being the head coach of the UW women. Quite an interesting little switcheroo. Anyways.
After that, Silas and I went to the Laundromat with Jake to hang out for a bit, which was fun. Lots of fun to catch up and chat with Jake. After that we came back home and went to a 5 o’clock evening practice, which was pretty mellow and technical. Things seem to be progressing nicely, we’re starting to get some things. Went to dinner with some guys after that, then a birthday party for one of the girls from the U23 8+ in Princeton. Now, it’s definitely bed time, as we have more piecing against the senior boats tomorrow… 2ks this time. Sure to be lovely.
Whatever, they’re only human.
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send details of these intersquad shenanigans via fb please...i'm really curious :P "mike teti helped him understand this"--man i wish i'd been there to hear that. was it a classic sort of smackdown?
awesome that you guys are doing well by teti. you're darn right the senior boats are only human. they're old humans at that. good luck, and git 'em!
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