Lightning Strikes! Booooo

For those of you loyal fans who got up to watch the Men's Eight race you were sadly dissappointed to hear that the racing was delayed then canceled. There was huge storm approaching as we were about to launch and they called it off shortly after that. We were about halfway through our warm-up when we were told to take it back to the dock.
It was a bit annoying, but there isn't much we can do about it really. Once we got back to the hotel, we began to prepare just as we had last night. We are very confident in our preparations to this point and to wait another day is fine by us. The goal is still to win the heat and that is what we are going to do.

It has been raining very hard since about 6:00pm tonight with frequent cracks of thunder and lightning. I'm interested to wake up in the morning and see if this storm has helped get rid of haze and improve the visibility. Today it wasn't too bad.

We will be racing tomorrow afternoon at 3:10pm which will mean 3:10AM EST. That's right. Anybody who wants to watch it will have to get up bright and early! It should be shown on TSN....but check CBC as well.

Sleep tight!