The Second Race

If you want to see M's first race, you'll have to hop on over to Chattanooga Daily Photo. This week we got up at 4:45am to caravan to Huntsville, Alabama. It seemed calm when we arrived around 7am. By lunch time the wind was really blowing and the river was whitecaps. Check out the University of Alabama's men's 8 trying to row in that.

See what happens when you take on too much water.

They were rescued, emptied their boat, and it was towed back to the recovery docks.

This is another team, but the side view gives you a good idea of what they were up against. Even a newbie like me could tell these were not ideal rowing conditions.

Shortly after this, the race was shortened from 5K to 3K so the boats would finish in the protected channel and not have to enter the main Tennessee River. So M had a short race. They finished 3rd of 3 teams, finishing 16 seconds behind 2nd. She was upset, but I thought they looked good and worked hard.

She even had some special visitors drive up from Rainbow City to watch! We'll call them Aunt Tammiey and Uncle Jonniey. If you don't want on the internet, don't pose for someone with a blog!