Lots of excitement and anticipation at breakfast as we all prepared mentally for our last day of races, the 500m races. We've been lucky with the starting times of our races, mid afternoon, so another respectable 11:00 am departure from our hotel. Races 232, 243 and 253 starting at 2:15pm and finishing at 5:10pm doesn't give us much recovery time but we are pumped for the challenge. Our start kept us in the race but we lost some ground in the middle of the race ending up in 5th place with a time of 2:21:549 just 0.661 out of 3rd spot!
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| To the start. |
Re-gouping and pumping each other up on the way to marshalling was calming. Another good start (no, a great start) we settled into our race. Ben took out the power 10's in an attempt to keep us going long and strong in the middle of the race. It seemed to work and we had lots left for the finish. But, once again, our rivals inched us out of 3rd spot by 2/3 of a boat. We still had a good time of 2:23.376 s. Once again, we need a fantastic 3rd race to stay in the medal hunt.
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| A Circle of the Best |
And that we did! Although slightly slower than races 1 & 2, race 3 was the best! We ended up 4th, just 0.4 s off of 3rd place. Way to go Titanium. A great finish and just 2.5 seconds over 3 races out of the bronze medal position. Such a team. I am so proud to be part of it.
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| Oh, what a feeling! |
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| Ocean Celebration, Lido Adriana |
Fort Langley did get a taste of the podium. Our Abreast with FORT-itude finished 3rd in 500 m races added another Bronze medal to their collection. Way to go, FORT-itude. You make us proud.
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| FORT-titude near finish |
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| FORT-itude wins Bronze |
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