I watched live coverage of the eighth race in the America's Cup today. Team New Zealand took their second race win of the day after an electric race. I don't really know what Hayden has been complaining about for the last week. I'd love to cover the America's Cup as a writer. Too bad it's my job to delegate instead, huh...
Anyway, this race. Hayden gave a pretty boring review of races seven and eight which, in my opinion, didn't do the second race (keep in mind that's the only race I watched today) justice. It was a brilliant race. Both teams shot out of the gates pretty much at the same time. It was close up until we sort of screwed up and went nowhere quickly. We fell (accordingly to what I was watching) 1.8 kilometres behind. I thought we were sitting ducks with no hope left to win the race. I thought it was over and we all might as well pack up and go home like Dean Barker did (this was low, I'm sorry).
All of a sudden, though, the Italians lost all momentum and we were gaining back our lost time at a literal rate of knots. It was fantastic. All hope that was previously lost had now lifted me out of my bean bag and I was ready to give myself the belief that we could do something. We could do something great and let them know about it, but I was not ready for what happened. Oh boy, nobody prepared me for what I was about to experience. It only because a lead greater than (again according to what I was watching) 2.0 kilometres.
We stormed to a Race Eight victory. It was definitely the sailing version of dodging a bullet, but it was a fantastic watch. I actually might get Hayden to watch a race... then he might actually be able to do some real blogging about this event. How he manages to make two minute reads from him complaining is fascinating, but the least creative thing he could ever do.
I don't always show up my Bloggers, but when I do... it's entirely by design.
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