Still not feeling crew very much right now. Actually, to tell the truth, I'm not feeling much of anything at the moment. Yesterday was basically a wasted day. I didn't accomplish anything until really late. I really just wanted to curl up in my blanket all day and not have to think about either school or crew. Not thinking is a luxury I don't have ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever wanted to quit crew so bad as today. Today was just an awful practice. A good workout, but just a bad practice. My Novice 8+ finally got on the water, rowing together for the first time. And we have a race this weekend. Fantastic. So the workout for today was pause drills, starts, then starts, up 10, settle 10, power 40, and ( Read more... )

Our regatta this weekend went soooo much better than last weekend's. We were at the same venue, but what a difference it makes when there aren't 40 mph gusts. The water was completely calm and glassy and the sun was shining at about 70 degrees, perfect rowing conditions. I even managed to get some sun on my legs, and quite a bit on my face, as ( Read more... )

It's hard getting back in the routine of going to practice and class everyday. Normally after Spring Break I can just jump right back in, but this semester is proving to be more difficult. I feel like all I've done for the past two days is sleep. It's very reminiscent of last semester. Not a good thing. Taking a week off of practice hasn't helped ( Read more... )

Practice this morning could have gone better. Could have gone worse too. I only got two hours of sleep last night because I hung out with Andy until late. But that's okay. I can deal with the sleep deprivation. What sucks is that I had to drive to practice knowing that I had very little money to put gas in my car in order to have enough juice to ( Read more... )

What can I say about our first regatta? Other than quite a lot of things went wrong. Let's look at them ( Read more... )

Well Spring Break is basically over for me. Tonight my team leaves for Augusta for SERCS (our first regatta). The regatta is tomorrow morning, but we are staying at Kyle F.'s house tonight to avoid driving up to Aiken, SC at 3am. Nice ( Read more... )

Haven't done much the last few days. Watched tv today, took a nap, talked to a couple of people. Tomorrow I'm excited because I have to go back to the doctor. That means I get to go do something. My orthotics are in, so I have to pick them up. Kathy set up my appointment, and I said to her, "Good, that'll give me something to do tomorrow." She ( Read more... )

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I hate being cold. Especially wet and cold. When it's 28 degrees outside. When the dock is frozen. When you pull your boat out of the water and three minutes later the water on the boat is frozen. But at least I'm not a coxswain. At least I did get to warm up a little when I was rowing. When we came off the water, there were two rowers to a ( Read more... )