The Marathon World Championships in Crestuma, Portugal, was a fabulous event. The organizing committee did a great job on all fronts, the event was well run, races went off on time, there was live event coverage online, the food was great, and the bus ride to and from the course provided us with an up close look at Porto and the surrounding area/countryside ....wow that was a mouthful.
The durou river on which the event was held runs through the small hillside town of Crestuma and is a beautiful and active(ferries, wine boats etc..) tidal river with 12ft tides!
The K2 event in which Anne and I competed took place last Sunday. The race went well, we had a great start staying in the mix, riding wash and fighting with the other teams to grab the best position. The field contained several athletes who had medal in the Sprint World Championships in August and athletes who competed at the 2008 Olympic games! Anne and I were knocked off the pack by a feisty Italian team who decided they did not want us to be riding wash with their "group" one minute we were on the wave and the next we were spun off to the side. We didn't let that bother us and kept on plugging finishing the race with a sprint to edge out Argentina.
We still have lots of things to work on, such as portaging and being more aggressive at the start but we came a long way since last year and fixed what we had set out to fix which was our start. Now we have a world class start and can work on figuring out the next part of the puzzle
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