Day 2 Semi-Finals
After yet another early start today I am happy to say that i am through to both A finals, 1000m and 500m.
The Semi-Finals are tough races considering that there are 9 in the race and only the top 2 and the fastest 3rd place getter from 4 semis go through to the Final. In the warm up for the race there were officials cleaning up any weed that may have floated onto the course, there was still a little bit left but I managed not to catch any on my rudder or front of my boat. My 1000m this morning went smoothly and I went on to win the semi. I will be racing the 1000m Final at 09:00hr Canadian time tomorrow which is 22:00hr Aussie time. 
Definitely one of my highlights racing this year was racing another 2 Olympic Champions both at 500m. When only 2 people progress to the finals this was going to be a problem unless one of us was the fastest 3rd. Lucky for me our semi was the fastest and I progressed through as the 3rd fastest time. It was a really close race with 3 very different racing styles. Between myself and 2nd place Adam Vk was less than 0.1sec and between 2nd and 1st, Ronie Rauhe was 0.2 of a second.
 The thing that makes it more rewarding is that both of these guys are really good blokes. It was great racing with them.

Congratulations to my Aussie training partners I have had for the last 4 months with all 4 of them making there respective A Finals ( K2 1000m David Smith, Luke Morrison ) and (K2 500m Jacob “Pistol†Clear, Murray Stewart). It is rewarding for me to see how hard these guys have been training and to get an outcome like this so far. I am quite sure that I will be writing tomorrow and the next on how well these guys went in their Finals!