Funboy has retreated into his tent

It's 10am and I am incredibly tired. Why am I even awake? I want to be sleeping still.
This would be because yesterday, I was up at 3:20am. This is because I had to be on a bus to Montreal at 4:30am. Yay! My first rowing regatta.

Well, that's a big lie. Last weekend I was on a bus at 5am to Brockville for a regatta there. That regatta was unfortunately cancelled after we had been there, waiting for an hour. I caled my parents at 7am to tell them that the regatta was cancelled and they were asleep. It was funny; I'd been up so long I had forgotten it was so early.

So yeah, that one was cancelled because there was east winds on the St Laurence where we were racing, and that makes for all kind of nasty waves, so the Montreal regatta was our first regatta.

I was raining, again. It's bee raining all week. We tried to find some room to sit inside the big, comfy boathouse (it's so nice since it's on the Montreal basin, where the Olympic races were), but there was no room. So Jake, our wondeful Funboy, set up the coolest tent city ever against a wall of the boathouse. Lisgar is the team that loses almost every race (unless Osgoode is competing. Then they lose) but even though we lose so much, we are the loudest team in terms of cheering. And the other teams all had to walk past our tent city to get to their little spot under the overhang and they we sooo jealous of us. :P

So I was in two races - Junior women's 8 (as in, 8 people in the boat) and the Junior women's 4. The 8 didn't go so well. Our stroke seat (the one who sets how fast we row -- important job) had the thing that holds her feet fall off, and people lost seats... not good. We came last, a la Lisgar usual and I wasn't tired at all, even after rowing 2 km up to the start and rowing 2km in the race.

I then immidiately jumped into the 4, and realized I was the only novice in the boat. Yeah. Daunting. So we rowed 2km back up to the start and had the most amazing race. We went so hard. Our coxie, Sarah had these plans for ten hard strokes every 250 metres, but for the last km, we rowed hard the whole time, we kept telling our coxie to do another hard 20.

We ended up getting 3rd of 5. We were one of only two Lisgar boats that didn't get last (Osgoode doesn't count), and it was such an amazing row. It felt SO good.

And then I slept all afternoon in my sleeping bag :D