Day 7

Day 7 started off on a rough note with an early morning practice with Trinity College from Hartford, Connecticut. We did an opening 1/4 mile of the race and the closing 1/2 mile of the race and neither piece was our best. Right after we got off of the water, we all weighed in. The weight is measured in stones, and one stone is equal to fourteen pounds. John weighed 11 stones 6 lbs, Ken was 12 stones 4 lbs, Matt was 12 stones 10 lbs, Mike G. was 11 stones 9 lbs, Mike L. was 14 stones, Drew was 13 stones 1 lb, Brad was 12 stones 1 lb, Pat was 13 stones 10 lbs, and Mark was 8 stones 3 lbs, but he needed to be 8 stones 9 lbs, so he is currently in the process of gaining weight.After the morning practice, we went food shopping again, except this time in our unisuits. I don't think that I have ever seen more junk food in my life, nor have I ever seen as many granola bars. On the bright side, we hide the Doritos and Pringles behind a wall of Nutrigrain bars. Once we got home and the food was stashed away, we had our rousing games of croquet and hit some golf balls into the woods, maybe some people's houses, I'm not really sure. Then we went off to our next practice.Our second practice of the day was focused on technique and we gradually fixed our problems through the practice until we finally got it right on the last power 20 of the night. We came home to a delicious dinner as always and then hit the hay pretty early because we had a race day rehearsal the next morning, so we all wanted to be completely rested.

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Mike Lombardi