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I think the story was good, and I enjoyed the writing of it, but there were definitely a few things to pull me out of the story.
1. Technically, unless you take a really roundabout way, you cannot get to Commercial Street in Portland ME from 95. It's off of 295. I have since been told that some people call that 95, and what I know as 95 they call 495, so perhaps that's where he got his information from, but it really bugged me.
2. I have never heard anyone refer to crew race distances in terms of miles and yards. I say this as a rower myself. Everything is in meters and kilometers. Do they talk differently in high school? I'm not sure, since I started in college, but it bugged me.
3. There were A LOT and I mean A LOT of coincidences, a few too many for me. I guess some people might like it because it makes it a nice tidy little story, but I was rolling my eyes.
I think the story was good, and I enjoyed the writing of it, but there were definitely a few things to pull me out of the story.
1. Technically, unless you take a really roundabout way, you cannot get to Commercial Street in Portland ME from 95. It's off of 295. I have since been told that some people call that 95, and what I know as 95 they call 495, so perhaps that's where he got his information from, but it really bugged me.
2. I have never heard anyone refer to crew race distances in terms of miles and yards. I say this as a rower myself. Everything is in meters and kilometers. Do they talk differently in high school? I'm not sure, since I started in college, but it bugged me.
3. There were A LOT and I mean A LOT of coincidences, a few too many for me. I guess some people might like it because it makes it a nice tidy little story, but I was rolling my eyes.