Day 1: 2000m

Our results today were 8th in premier open and 4th in premier mixed. After a solid race by the open crew, we are able to bring some learnings to work on into tomorrow's 1000m event. We decided before the mixed results came out that we had an amazing race. Although the disapointment is deep at a 4th, as defending Champs, a lot of tactics and positioning comes into the 2000m, especially with the format of running starts used here and the easy sinkabililty of the type of boat used. Several crews sunk and the situation was such that, unless you got a lead on a brilliant turn or were a much faster crew, the ability to overtake was severely hampered by the huge amount of water you would take in to do so (to get past the wash). I would like to go into more detail but I'm exhausted. We are taking the outlook that 2000m results have very little relation to rankings in straight controlled sprint races. If anything, we're even more pumped up than before!