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Had a great weekend of racing! Saturday was our first race together. Our competition was the Dutch U23 national eight. They gave us a good fight but we came out on top, winning our first gold medal! It wasn't our best race but it was also encouraging because we knew we could make some improvements for Sunday.

On Sunday we raced a heat in the morning against some club crews which gave us a nice preparation race for our battle against the Olympic Dutch women's eight in the afternoon. We were all really pumped for this race as we knew we had nothing to lose!! The final was against the Olympic Dutch eight and the U23 Dutch eight too. We had a fantastic race and kept the Olympic boat to less than 10 secs lead on us. We also beat the U23 boat by more than the day before. We were very pumped with our performance!!

Now we are spending the next two weeks in Amsterdam training towards the Royal Henley in London England. We will still be training at the Bosbaan and will have an opportunity to do some training pieces against the Dutch national team. Should be great!! Looking forward to it!!