Needless to say, it was an emotional day on the race course yesterday. After a pre-final night of biting fingernails, fidgeting in our seats, and feeble attempts to ignore the growing tension so that we may snag at least a couple hours of precious sleep (hours which, inevitably, were spent dreaming about what successes, or failures, tomorrow might bring), we did indeed arise rather well rested.

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Today we are racing St. Paul's School (U.K.) at 6:20 PM, which is 1:20 PM on the east coast, USA. -KENNY

Hey guys whats up? It was a big day for us today in Henley. You'll hear from us soon, later guys!Matt McGowan__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Today is our tenth day 'cross the pond here in the town of Henley-on-Thames, and now with the sun just beginning to set behind the greenery in the Colemans' backyard I am on the family computer to update our Henley journal. While everyone here is getting ready for bed, all of you, our readers, are probably just getting home from work, or beginning to prepare dinner. Far from home we are, but the

The Philadelphia Inquirer: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/12018370.htm Prep's eight advances at Henley The Hawks began by routing their London opponents. COMPILED BY THE INQUIRER The St. Joseph's Prep varsity eight won its first race yesterday in the Henley Royal Regatta and advanced to today's second round. Competing for the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup, the Hawks

Hey guys. -KENNY

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We woke up a little bit later than we did yesterday, and treated it exactly as we will be treating the first day of racing which is tomorrow. Instead of taking our daily run to practice we all got a ride in our "Europcar." We got to the venue and stretched and did our exact race day warm up. Then we met at the starting line at rehearsed our rac plan. We did our starting sequence, then paddled to

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

Day 6:Today we only had one late practice so most of us slept in until after noon. During the afternoon, we had our usual game or two of croquet. A couple of us stayed inside and came upon an "amazing" singing horse quartet online.We had a really good steady state row during the evening. Everyone seemed to be focused and the boat was moving well. Our row was followed up by a later than usual

We all took advantage of not having a practice this morning and slept in long and hard. Right now some are still sleeping, some are hitting more golf balls, a few eating breakfast, and we haven't seen Coach Lamb since yesterday before the draw. We have practice again at 6, so you'll all be hearing from us again soon. Later days.

So it's 10:15 PM here in Oxfordshire, and I'm currently making our third attempt to successfully update the Henley page. A 20 minute sacrifice of sleep that I am more than willing to make... About 12 hours ago, the crew arrived rather well rested indeed after an evening full of croquet (something new...), and a much-needed long night's sleep. With only one practice planned for today, due to the

Hey there everyone, After our wonderful pasta dinner last night, a few of us played a quick game of croquet then went right to bed. We had a tough morning on the river. We took our warm up run to the venue and met up with the Yale Lightweight 8 and did a whole course piece with them at set ratings (30 spm off the line, settle into 26 spm, and finished the peice at a 30). We jumped them off the

We created a webshots account. -Kenny

Practicing on the Thames River. Hey guys. Today is our first full day, and we're (almost) adjusted to the 5 hour time difference between Philadelphia and Henley-on-Thames. England is absolutely gorgeous. The houses on the Thames (pronounced 'tems') are quaint, unlike anything in the States. We had practice around 10AM, followed by a shopping spree at the grocery store where we grabbed a bunch of

Members of the St. Joseph's Prep Varsity 8 arrived safely this morning in England. Under the coaching guidance of head coach Bill Lamb and assistant coaches Andy Kelly and Matt Ruggles, coxwain Mark Delguercio, and rowers including Pat Dewechter, Brad Adams, Drew Golda, Mike Lombardi, Mike Gennaro, Matt McGowan, Ken Ewell, and John Connolly, began training at Henley on the Thames late this