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| Friday. Like any self respecting oarsman, I decided that carboloading was the key to having a good race. Instead of going out to a restaurant like in years past, I decided to invite people over for dinner, instead. Left to right: Back of Trisha's head, Alice, Margaret, Niell and Joy's foot.
| Joy and Eugene are laughing at something.. Or someone..
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| Mark was probably the source of their entertainment. Trisha's decided to stop hiding from the camera.
| Saturday.A look at the lightweight allstars:Isaac(Hair)Dinner, John (I need a) Ho, Mark (Big Horn) Laughter, Eric (El Guapo) Dauler, Rich (Clyde) Hanna, Kevin (Construction accident) Schmidt, Stephen (Davey) Carr, and Adam (Mc) Reynolds. The little piece of styrofoam in the lower right corner belongs to Shana (Puckhead) Diez.
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| Oh yeah, I was planning on racing, too. Note how the gentleman in the background is bigger than I am in the foreground. I would pass him a minute later.
| Just cranking along. Boat courtesy of Jon Kawaja, who was awesome and kind enough to lend it to me for the race. Thank you Jon!!!
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| Well, I think a had a pretty good race.
| The mandatory tongue wagging picture. Wazzzzzzup?
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| Well, you didn't think Mark came all the way from California just for dinner, did you?
| Yeah, he came for lunch, too.
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| At some point, I am told that I finished second in my race. (out of 58). The ear-to-ear grin reflects utter bewilderment, in addition to excitement and happiness.
| The results of my race are posted.
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| This is what the board in the picture above says, if you could see it. Except it's not upside down.
| Jeff(a.k.a. Poochie) was the founder of the dog pound rowing association, of which Mark and I are members.
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| Sunday. Lee Wolfer raced in the master's women's single.
| Eric Balsley is a Riverside member and fellow MIT alum, who unfortunately moved to Baltimore. He's launching for the men's lightweight single.
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| My coach, Kevin McDonnell, also racing in the men's lightweight single.
| Kevin's coming back
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| The Riverside Women's Lightweight Eight on their way to destroying the field. They started second, and at this point they had passed bow number one.
| The winners land at RBC
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| Before the individiuals in the pictures below are introduced, it should be noted that Riverside had not one, not two, but SEVEN boats in the women's championship double. The highest finishers were Ann Holmes and Kerry Swift, pictured here.
| Liane Malcos and Bryna McConnarty got tired of sweep rowing, and decided to do some sculling, instead.
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| They won the senior pair, four and eight at Canadian Henley this summer, along with a few events at the USRowing Nationals. I think they wanted a challenge.
| Sam Minc and Karen Chenausky moving past the RBC boathouse.
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| Jean (Lurch) LeFebre and Kate Sullivan looking smooth.
| Layne Salter and Sarah Howlett at the finish.
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| Pam Cyr and Amy Westenfeld going for broke.
| The Riverside Men's Champ 8 launching. Claudia, Jon Douglas, Sean Wynne, Pat Godfrey(I think), Tim Godfrey(I think), Tim Vogels, Niell Elvin, Rob Zechman, and Charlie Burckmyer
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| Claudia, Jon and Sean
| The RBC Champ Eight during their race, on their to a 15th place finish and an automatic entry in next years' regatta
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| This three boat traffic jam is a classic example of why the Head of the Charles is such a unique event.
| Mike Perry, MIT '99 finished 3rd in the Championship Single on Saturday, qualifiying him for the Charles Schwabb Championship Sprint. In what most considered an upset, Mike finished a foot behind Australia's Duncan Free, and ahead of Steve Tucker, a bronze medal winner at the 2002 world championships in the lightweight single, and also an MIT alum.
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| Mike at awards tent, absolutely exhausted, but pretty happy.
| A regatta official is interviewing Mike.
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| Mike and Steve are talking about the race. Oh, by the way, did I mention that second place won $5000 and third place won $2500. Yeah, Yeah, Tech!
| Steve during his warmup. Incidentally, he's fastest sculler in the U.S. weighing a hulking 157 pounds, and standing 5 feet 7 inches tall. But man, can he make a boat move.. (the 550 meter sprint is definitely not his specialty though).
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| Rumyana Nemkova won the sprint, just like she won the Women's champ single the day before, and the world championship about a month before that.
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