We traveled down to the Anacostia to race a bunch of private schools this weekend in the Cindy Cole Cup. It was cold, windy, the day after Prom and the competition was all private schools. It went about as well as could be expected. :o) But any race is a good race, if you can learn something and I think Zack and his boat learned many things. The deck was stacked against them from the beginning. The conditions were so bad, that they had to move the start line to avoid the whitecaps at the beginning. It was cold, it was windy, the current was crazy strong and there were no lane markers! Coach Meehan forgot to register their boat, so they couldn't race in their 8. They ended up breaking them into 2 4's - a light 4 and a heavy 4. They had only ever been in a 4 maybe twice. They also had a totally different coxswain since there were 2 boats instead of one. Then the icing on the cake... the Novice 4 race was full, so they put them in the Varsity 4 race! I think a couple of the Varsity boats had one rower that weigh more than any 2 of the boys in Zack's boat! Could there be anything else going against them? But once again, they survived, they didn't flip (although they tried) and hopefully they learned some valuable lessons. He seemed pretty positive when he came off the water. Art and Karen and Mark were all here visiting and hopefully enjoyed watching Zman race.
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We also hosted the Pasta Party this week. It was quite an experience. I just love these kids so much. Such a great group!!
So much food, so many shoes, so many boys! But a great time. I'd have them back anytime!
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