All set for Test Event
Written by Lucy Macgregor | 01 August 2011
Tomorrow will be the first day of racing for us at the Olympic Test Event in Weymouth. We’ll be the first class to start racing and it will be as close as we’ll get in similarity to racing at the Olympics next year, so we’re really looking forward to getting started.
Yesterday we had our first day sailing in the brand new Olympic boats and the venue at Portland has been taken over by LOCOG and looking quite different to usual. It all makes the Olympics next year feel that bit closer!
Today we have another official practice session in the boats then round robin racing starts for us inside Portland Harbour tomorrow at 11.00. With there only being 12 teams here and for the Games, we’ll do a complete round robin racing every other team in the first three days. We’ll then have a day off and the format is then quarter finals, semis and finally the finals aren’t until late next week.
It is the longest event we have every taken part of in terms of number of days between start and finish, but in terms of number of races overall it is quite a bit shorter than our World Cup events. This means we’ll have to get used to having days off in the next two weeks… not something we’re used to with our racing usually! The forecast this week has a bit of the ‘its not normally like this’ feel to it, but next week is looking a touch more ‘normal’.
We’ll try and keep you posted as much as possible, bye for now though. Lucy x