Womens premier had our first two practices today and the boat is feeling good already. We had an early morning and late afternoon practice totaling about 10 kms. Nothing too strenuous as we were using the time in the boat to flush out the jet lag, but the boat is feeling good already!
We explored the hotel surroundings a bit, but the highlight of the off time for the day involved many bottles of water. Krysta and I went grocery shopping to find veggies, fruit and meats. At the same time, we stocked up on bottled water (very unsure of whether we will be physically ok to drink the tap water). We each got a case of six two-litre bottles and brought them back to our hotel. We went to open the bottles to add our electrolyte mixes for thé afternoon practice, and it turns out we bought fizzy water. We now have a total of 24 L of heavily carbonated water lying around that we can't seem to pass off to anyone.
I tried to use one of the carbonated waters in practice, but it exploded on me, so, no-go. It's too bad this wasn't Ottawa, because my husband would take it off our hands in an instant!!
Anyway - more to come tomorrow. We are racing an exhibition 2km race tomorrow and then a practice at night at the race course. I'm very much looking forward to racing at the course. Apparently they have paddling starting gates that corral you in, within your lane, and then drop when the horn is blared. Different than we are used to, but should be good!
In other news, because of the weather that Ottawa has been experiencing, some of our teammates from the Galley Girls have gotten stuck in transit. Here is hoping they get here safe with all of their gear!
bubbles are good!
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