What do you learn from a loss?

Its always nice to be back at home. We arrived back in Australia last Wednesday after being away training in Italy and a World Cup race in Switzerland for three weeks in total.

Training went reasonably well in Italy with some solid sessions in the boat, on the bike, on the ergo, in the pool and in the gym. Of an evening, we tried get out a bit so there were very regular outings for Italian pizza, coffee and gelati. I must say some (or most) of our pizza retailers here in Australia have a great deal to learn about making pizzas!!! We pretty much went out every second night as a ritual. For 6 Euros, how could you not!!

So how about Switzerland??

As I mentioned, training went pretty well in Italy but come racing in the World Cup, thats a different story. Result aside, we under performed on the day. We were out classed by Canada who took the line honours and the Kiwis who took the silver and we came in third. Those two crews raced well and we have to make a few changes to find our form and turn that result around. After having a week to think about the race and viewing it recently a few times, we have to change a few things.....and we will!

I'm looking forward to the next 10 weeks before the final in Beijing with some great changes both on and off the water. Some say that you learn more from a loss than you do a win. I've learnt a lot from this loss and these things I've learnt will be a great driving force over the next ten weeks and ultimately at the Beijing Olympics.