Now that it's Over

Well after 3 days of intense racing, with a lot of ups and downs in all the different aspects of the competition, I'm exhausted and ready to take a short break before starting my training for the rest of this year, as well as the year to come (it's never to early to start training for another year, and next years trials in my eyes). As a whole I feel alright about my own personal performance, as there were certainly some very good aspects, and some aspects that could use a good deal of work. I had a few spectacular sections and moves, but it was so hard for me to put together a full day of really solid boating, and this is going to be one of my largest focuses in the upcoming year, putting together two solid runs. On the other hand though, I had a good deal of large mistakes, that were all very costly, and I had a tough time moving past them mid-run, so thats another thing I'll be working on. 

Throughout the rest of the competition though there were a lot of ups and downs for everyone, and it was most definitely a nail biter finish to the whole thing. Going into the final run on the last day of competition the top six boaters were within one second of each other with the top three boaters with in 1/10 of a second, and nothing had really been decided concerning the team in the first two days, so there was a lot riding on that final run. The spot check also seemed to give a lot of people trouble, causing JP Griffith to get disqualified, as well as several prominent Canadians, causing them to loose potential Olympic spots in the process. 

Well that's that, and it was a good couple days of really hard racing, and I look forward to next years trials where I hope to do much better, as well as taking this past weekends racing experience to heart, using it to my advantage as much as possible. 

So till next time, 

best wishes and training, 

Dodge