the first two races out of the 3 were truely incridble and we never thought that we’d do as good as we actually did.
coming in first place in both our semi and our qualifier really gave us high hopes on medaling at nationals. however we knew that finals would be a tight race and really hard, and we knew that none of these girls were going down without a fight.
i’m not going to lie, but our start was fucking horrible and we were actually in last place for a while. but within the body of our piece we pulled ahead and had a constant bow to bow battle for third place.
and let me tell you how fucking nuts it was…………
we were so close to one another that i could hear other coxswains screaming “EGG HARBOR IS RIGHT THERE, THEY ARE RIGHT FUCKING THERE, DO NOT LET THEM PASS YOU, GOOOOOOO!!”
it was so fucking hard, dude. we were in a dead even tie for third and when we pasted over that last 500 meters of the race and everyone began to sprint, all i could think about was getting ahead and letting the screaming of the crowd numb out the pain….. and with under a second. a fucking milasecond, dude, hampton won third.
afterwards we were pretty upset. i mean 4th place in the US and Canada is excellent, but we were all crying………not because we lost but because this was our last race as the egg harbor township womens varsity 4. that concluded our season. that WAS our last race together……ever.
all five us will never race in the same boat again . 3 of them being seniors and graduating and 1 out of the 3 rowing in college.
it hit me that at practice i cant turn around to my bow seat and be like
“hey cailyn, guess what happened to me today?”
and i can’t make fun of milly for fogetting how to count when coxing a peice or a race.
i can’t tell taylor to bring the rate down or have our daily rides to and from practice singing stupid songs and eating almonds like they’re crack.
everythings going to be so different without them. and thats what made me cry.
i’m so proud of everyone that raced this weekend. you’re all amazing and i couldn’t imagine working with any other girls. congrats to the jv4 for snatching the bronze. way to go eagles! onto next year!
senior fucking year. LETS DO IT.