Started the marathon with a blister
Written by Ben Rhodes | 06 June 2011
Ok well I cant start this week with that winking smiley facey! :( seems better. Well bit of frustrating day here and I guess on a positive note we have stopped needing to worry about getting a discard!
In fact we fully blew that out the way within -2seconds of the first start! A Black flag disqualification for being over the start line too soon. We were pretty surprised to say the least but well it's done now. I think we did a pretty good job of calming ourselves down and not getting too upset with life. In the next two races despite having to be a little conservative on the starts (for obvious reason!) we got a 8th and a 5th. Both could have been a bit better but the gaps didn't seem to quite open for us.
Anyway if we can keep solid like that i am sure we can start working ourselves up the leader board, though we have of course made it more of a leader mountain to climb! There's a long way to go so plenty of water to go down the course yet, looks a bit fresh tomorrow so going to have to hold on to our hats and try and get some good ones.
Luckily it's not a sprint...