On the 9th
February GB hopefuls made the journey to Boston in Lincolnshire. The next stage of the trials process was held
over 5000m in 1x. This was a great opportunity
for me to show what I had learnt on training camp in January. I had a good start and held onto a good pace
down the course, my plan was to start taking it up for the finish at the 1k to
go mark and start adding some more pace on the boat with a final 500m push for
home. The last 1k did not go as planned
as my left forearm started to become very painful. The last 500m I had to concentrate more on
being able to turn my blade then winding in to the finish line.
Despite this
I feel I put in a good performance and showed an improvement on time since our
December testing. I finished in 17th
position and with only 14 places for the first World Cup in Sydney I will not
be venturing to sunnier climes this time.
Final trials
will be held at the end of April when selection will be made for the second
World Cup in Eton, GB. I hope to find
some more boat speed as I keep engraining the technical improvements I made on
the camp.
For now the
focus is on Women’s Eights Head or the River Race on the 9th March in
London.
