Olivia Makes a Great Start to the Year
After the World Championships I took a break from training to let my body have a complete rest and to complete a month’s placement for my physiotherapy course. I also went to Slovenia to watch the seniors race at their World Championships. The quality of racing was amazing and a couple of the winning U23 squad had been invited to race too, so it was great to watch them be so successful. I hope that’ll be me either this year or next year.
Once uni started again in September I got back into training. The first set of trials were on 22nd and 23rd of October but unfortunately I was unable to attend due to illness, so I will have to complete a 2km rowing machine test before being able to attend the next set of trials in December.
The first race I took part in this year was pairs head with Caragh McMurtry in London from Chiswick to Hammersmith. We didn’t train for it together, but just did our own individual training and jumped into it on the day of the race as an elite 2- (pair). So we were very pleased to win!!
The next race of the year was Fullers Fours Head of the River. We raced on the tideway river in London again but this time from Chiswick to Putney. We were entered in Intermediate quads and ended up coming 5th. This was a bit of a disappointing result but we did race as full university crew so hopefully we will continue to train together and improve throughout the year for better results.
The next events coming up in my diary are:
• Training camp for the potential U23 girls
• 2km rowing machine
• December GB trials in Boston
Olivia