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A New Team Blog and Only 4 Months to the Rallye du Canal du Midi!

Welcome!  Here you will find all things Rallye du Canal du Midi for Marblehead rowers and their family and friends.

We will be posting important information here leading up to the rallye.  Then, once we start our journey, others can use this site to check in for some highlights as we make our way from Toulouse to Beziers on an adventure of a lifetime.

I thought I would start off with a glimpse of how fabulous we are going to look in just 4 short months.

Scratch that!  We are going to look even better!

I am hearing great things about the Saturday row this weekend and I can attest to a fantastic row for all with the Sunday group.  A big thank you to Susie, Jim and Jay for all of their time, coaching and patience.  We all greatly appreciate it.

Please send any posts, pictures or videos that you would like added to the blog to me at shantarrant@gmail.com.

For some reason, I was not able to upload all of the youtube videos but here are the links to a few that I thought might be worth watching:

This one is a bit long but shows some of the course for both the rowers and the bikers.  At around the 15 min mark, you can see how the teams go about getting the boat out of the water and onto the dolly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJW0-o9tBY
This one is less leisurely.  Perhaps at the finish line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHMoZUiKJGQ

News coverage for the Rallye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGh3alcrxY

I believe this video is of race registration and the kick-off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RMMLqWPqA

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