rep victory!!!

hello to everyone following our progress! it was a very exciting day for us! we raced the rep at 1230 this afternoon and won!! top 3 boats advanced to the AB semifinal and the bottom 3 advanced to the C final. it had been our goal all summer to make the AB semifinal and so we walked off the water feeling great.
we went into the rep feeling confident but also not knowing how the whole thing would play out. i was pretty nervous at the start, as anyone would be at the starting line of a world championship race. we had the worst start 5 we have ever had in our lineup, which did not make us feel very at ease going into the race. but luckily we got it back together in the high strokes. at the 500 meter mark, we were pretty much dead even with the italians, one lane to our starboard side. we took a move to walk away from them and started taking seats. by the 1000 meter mark, we were bow to stern or so. for the last 1000, we kept walking away from italy, poland, and the rest of the field to claim the top spot. after the race i remember saying to lisa, "we just won a race at worlds!!!" ok, ok, i know what you are all thinking. kristin, its the reps, its not like you just won a gold medal. and i know, but still, it was really exciting to know that the first beep at the finish line is for you. i was ecstatic.
we are heading into tomorrows AB semifinal with a fast group of boats, as to be expected. we are expecting switzerland and france to get out really fast and then as far as the 3rd spot goes, its anyones game. we are going to go after it with everything we have and hopefully when you check results tomorrow, we will have qualified ourselves for the A final, something i never thought possible.
ok, there are about 7 people in line for the computers staring at me saying "get off the effing computer you hog" so we gotta go to bed. thanks everyone for the emails and support, we love it!