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March 2011

Krystal Weir / 2011 / March

Latest News from Australian Training Block

Over the past couple of weeks I have been back in Melbourne after a week of training in Sydney with the Full Rig Australian Sailing Squad boys. We had a great week of training with Michael Blackburn. Since then I have been back in the Gym with trainer Sarah Pocket Rocket and onwater with the VIS training squad run by Johnny Rodgers with specialist coaching from Sarah Blanck. I will be heading back overseas for the next ISAF cup in Palma, this coming Friday....

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Krystal finishes 2nd at Clearwater Mid-Winters East 2011

Krystal finished 2nd to Paige Railey (USA) and third was Juan (PUR). We had a great event, with 8 races in four days. It was a tricky event with over 100 radial competitors. The race committee and organisers did a fantastic job of organising over 200 competitors, full rigs + 4.7 sailors. We had a range of light variable winds off the land and from the seabreeze direction. We had an exciting last race with the race committee just sending us off in time before the last possible start time of 2pm. It was sudden death with the black flag being hoisted straight away. I had accumulated a very small buffer from the tight lineup of competitors behind me. It was important for me to just keep...

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