COunting down to my race on Sunday. I don't really like the long fall races; this
one is on the shorter side at 4400m, but I am just not built for endurance. I hope
I don't make a complete DFL fool of myself.
Fortunately, head races
run one boat at a time, so that if I do no one will be able to tell except by
looking at the posted results.
I'm a much better rower than I am a
racer -- that is, I row well but slowly. I might be happier if I just emphasized
time in the boat without worrying about speed or getting ready for races, but
rowing alone can get boring without having a goal. Also, and more crucially, I
can't get my head into any point from which that doesn't look like wimping out.
I'm not terribly competitive in physical sports in the sense of needing to do
better than other people, but I do have some issues with wimping out. (On the
other hand, I'd be upset if I lost a spelling or trivia contest. But I don't know
many people here who consider those things recreational.)
Earlier
today I had a much better idea to write about, but it got lost in the flurry of
work. I'd like to note, though, that I spent almost all of today writing code,
which is what we software people call what we do because it sounds so much cooler
than "programming". Yeah, dude, I write code, like Ms. Secret Agent Woman. It was
simultaneously frustrating and satisfying, and I could have stayed much later if
not for the need to go assess a local disc golf course (more on that later), pick
up dinner, and carve the pumpkin that Rudder ended up not being able to find in
the stores anyway.