I’ve already talked about the race. But today I finally saw the actual race results. We were 4/10 of a second slower than our “rival” boat, raw time. With the handicap they beat won by 18 seconds (their average age, 53. Ours, 35). Regarding the raw time, I’d rather they’d have beaten us by 18 seconds than 4/10. With 4/10, or anything that close, there is always a lingering thought in my head. Could I have done something to close a gap that short? Could I have rowed 10 strokes harder? 5? 20? Could we have managed to get into our rhthym, or maintained a good ratio for just a few more strokes to make up that gap? Yuk. 4/10 is harder to grasp.

We beat the next fastest boat by 14 seconds, raw time. But, with the age handicap, they came in ahead of us, in second place.