'rowing' Category
That was a good row
I was actually pretty happy to have any decent row at all, since I first biked there the 8.5 km from work, but in fact this was an especially pleasant row, though not too long. (These facts are quite possibly related.) M and I were out in singles, with one of the better coaches I’ve [...]
catching up
It was a nice quiet weekend, and I can tell I needed it – I slept until 9:30 both days, which is unusually late for me even on a weekend. (Only problem is, that didn’t help me get enough sleep last night!) It’s a very quiet week around here, since about half the company (and [...]
I promise there is absolutely no soccer in this entry
You know what really sucks? (where by “sucks” I mean “was actually pretty killer, just not optimally so”) That would be when you sit down to a tasty dinner of ravioli with sun-dried tomato pesto, the leftover tomato-and-bread salad (panzanella, which word I love but always forget and have to google), and a Spanish rose [...]
photos!
I was right – it’s not really possible to take great crowd photos if you can’t get up above them. But I had to at least try. This is just the queue for an ATM – a very uniformly-colored queue. Here’s the crowd in the market square. As you can see, there is a wide [...]
*my* sport
Hey, while scouting around for the right channel to see the game, I found the other World Cup – the rowing one in Lucerne – being shown on Eurosport. Cool. Great Britain won the men’s eight, the US was something like sixth or seventh. Good things about life in Europe: getting to see the occasional [...]
sleep-dep fuzzy-brain
I was seriously thinking of bailing on rowing yesterday – I was tired and fuzzy-brained after work, and I haven’t been sleeping well. But yesterday was nice and cool after the heat of last week, and temperatures are due to rise again so I forced myself to go and take advantage of the weather. I [...]
still here, just quiet
Ted is here, yay! Unfortunately this is a shorter trip; he’s only in for 13 days. *Most* unfortunately he leaves two days before our anniversary. It’s sort of hard to get mad at him as I only realized it a few days before he arrived; on the other hand that’s mostly because he kept saying [...]
update, on the usual topics
Travel, rowing, knitting, clothes, books … check. Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything. Oregon was good; I’d forgotten how beautiful the drive along I-5 north of Ted’s hometown is. It reminds me of the scenery in Tasmania. we got to spend time with the in-laws and even with both of Ted’s [...]
rowing update
The combination of Jonquil’s and Orbitalmechanic’s entries reminds me that I haven’t written much about rowing lately. The thing is, it’s going really well; I had been on the water so little in the last few years, and I’d slacked off a bit on distance pretty much ever since the last Holiday Challenge ended (“slacked [...]
human-powered vehicles
I think my endurance is starting to return (I’ve been slacking for a while, really). But yesterday I rowed 10 km, which was all the more notable because it was in my boat, Moonrise, which is a slow and heavy boat. It’s made to be used for open water or for learners; I took it [...]