EXPERIENCES

By Ilaria, Sunday @14:46

One of the best experience I have ever had were the European Rowing Champions I had this summer in Poland.

My team (the Italian team) and I went there by bus!

The travel was nice but a bit long; about 30 hours inside the bus. Terrible!!

The seats were uncomfortable but we listened to music and we sang all the time so we enjoyed our self anyway.

We didn’t sleep because it was impossible also we were everybody tired. But finally we arrived at Poznan at about nine o’clock of Thursday morning.

We had a shower in Hotel and we slept, and at 1:00 a.m we had lunch and after that we had training. We were so tired!

On Saturday we had our races.

I woke up really early, the sun was shining all day! And what a day!

We went in the race competition and in the morning we had the qualifications. I was in single scull and I passed to the final that was in the afternoon.

The races were fantastic ; I was really satisfied!

In the evening, after dinner we went out with our trainers for walk in the centre of Poznan.

Fantastic! It was completely different from the centres of big Italian towns.

Finally we returned in hotel and we went to bed because the day after we could have other races.

Also on Sunday my races were OK, in my opinion they were better than my Saturday races.

I received compliments from everybody and this felt me well.

At 4 p.m we left Poznan and we returned home.

Sin! I wanted to stay there again!

By Ilaria, Sunday @15:27

One of the negative experiences I've had was when I lost a rowing race.

It was in the 2014!

I was in Ravenna with my team and my family. The weather was OK and it wasn’t so hot.

I had as always the race in single scull. I was convinced of winning but I was not quite focused and I thought about everything but I didn't think about the race.

I was not upset!

When I was at the start there was some wind.

I don’t remind how was the race.

I remember I was in the first position but when rivals tried to overtake me, I didn’t react and I let them go on and finally I arrived 3^rd.

Strange! I always react especially when I’m losing.

I HATE LOSING!

At the end the day was funny and I learnt from my mistake.