About a year and a half ago we did a fun segment on gondolas for an Australian TV show.
Along with showing how romantic it all was, I mentioned that we also race these boats. The host HAD to have us race for the segment, so Eddie and I took a couple gondolas out and ran a down-and-back sprint.
I didn't expect to win, because Eddie is younger, bigger,
and had been training a lot, but as luck would have it, I won that race.
This year at Nationals, Eddie and I ended up in the same heat
for the Solo Sprint event.
It was again - a down-and-back course.
I thought "well, I beat him before..."
Turned out that such logic did NOT apply.
Eddie beat us all off the line, made it to the buoy turn first, and from there...flew away from us, all the way to the finish line.
It was an impressive performance, but it got me wondering:
was this payback for that race in front of the TV cameras?
Or had he just let me win that time?
I guess we will never know.
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