July 09, 2003
tapering
I can't imagine why anyone would think I'm a difficult person when it takes so
little to make me happy (at least briefly). I was unreasonably excited last night
because I got to sleep in all the way until 6 this morning. Not counting the
usual-schedule-induced hourly wakings at 3, 4, and 5 AM, of course. Or the cat's
yowling at some point, though he stopped before I had to drag out the squirt gun.
And at least I didn't, like Rudder, wake up to find that one of the cats had
yakked up on my shoes. (He didn't wear that pair yesterday, so it might not have
happened last night.) Yes, it's official: my favorite part of racing is tapering
off training in the week before.
I did enjoy my practice with She-
Hulk yesterday. If we row that well in the race Sunday, I'll be happy, and if
anyone else beats us, it will be to their credit, not our shame. We row fast. If
they row faster it won't be from our lack of effort.
This is my last
race until at least December or so, since I don't plan to do any head races this
fall. I don't like doing longer races, and I've satisfactorily proved to myself
that I can do them in a single a double, or any other boat. So first, I'll take a
week off training and then I'll start a long-term plan focusing on next spring. I
do hope to do some coxing this fall so I can still pariticpate in some races; I've
spoken to Yosemite Sam about coxing for his crews, because though he's not always
great at imparting his knowledge, he was a world-class cox and I hope to learn a
lot (he was alternate cox on the crew that didn't get to go to the 1980
Olympics).
Oh and if anybpdy's wondering, I did buy
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Willpower R not me. Maybe it's a good thing I sublimate to relatively harmless
lusts; imagine if these were a man.
Stolen from Coriakin:
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You belong in The Man Who Sold The
Moon. You are a
dreamer. People don't understand you your
calling, and
often get in your way. Frontiers
call to you, and you will breathe your
last
breath as you gaze back from a distant horizon.
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You are a rapier! You"re fast and very sharp.
your
only weakness is that in certain
situations you can be thin and
easily
breakable.