Olympic Games

We hit the gym at 0900-1030. We are shortening up the workouts now in the last week. Higher reps and lower weights..more aerobic.

No sailing today. We had a 20-30 knots Meltemi today and all the Stars decided to protect the assets. We finished up some measurement tasks. One of them was putting the decals on our mainsail. It takes two hours per main!

We have the letters “USA” up top, a US flag that is 6′ x 9 feet in the middle, and the names “Cayard” and “Trinter” on each side of the main near the clew. You should be able to tell which boat we are when you see Star sailing on TV.

We also put our race mast up and dock tuned it. We wet sanded the keel (USA Team Boatright, Carl Eichenlob, had to add 2 mm to our trailing edge yesterday to make it measure in) and put away some of the practice sails.

Hopefully the Meltemi will drop a bit tomorrow and we can get out there and get a workout.

The only classes that raced today were the Yngling and the Finn so tomorrow, which was supposed to be a rest day for the 470 will now be a race day. This place requires patience, on the day and throughout the series.

We hit the gym at 0900-1030. We are shortening up the workouts now in the last week. Higher reps and lower weights..more aerobic.

Icka, Danny and Allie are leaving me tomorrow and heading home. I think they have had a good taste of the Olympics and Greece. I will miss them but it is probably just as well that they are leaving as I wont be much company over the next 12 days. Now it is time for me to get into my zone and focus.