All race reports for Alexander Kasas

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Event: Marlow Regatta 2010 - Senior
Posted as: Sasha
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We were determined to go off the start aggressively, as we had been encouraged to do so by Fred Gill the previous morning in training. This was successful, and despite being a touch slow in the first three strokes, by 500m gone, we were half a length clear of the field. This was a pleasant surprise in such a high level event.

At 750m gone, still about half a length ahead of Georgetown, Natasha started to swear and steer violently. A puff of feathers later I saw a swan struggle from under Coker's blade and into the safety of the reeds. All things considered, we recovered remarkably well but had obviously lost some speed and our strong rhythm. More importantly, Georgetown had taken a lead over us.

We sat behind them for the rest of the race. Our wind at the end was scrappy and failed to increase the speed or even the rate significantly. We raced this one to the line, as only first place would proceed to the final, second and third going to the rep.

Pleased that we had shown we were competitive in Senior (indeed, we had led the race until we hit the swan), and eager to keep fresh for the rep, we decided at this point to scratch from IM1.

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Event: May Bumps 2013 - Thursday
Posted as: Sasha
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Hooray!!