Archive for October, 2008
the erg is eating my life
The erg is beginning to eat my life, just as on-the-water rowing used to. I don’t think the stupid has set in yet too badly, probably because there haven’t been as many obscenely early wake-up calls yet, but those will come – I have to wake up at 5:30 tomorrow and the next four-week cycle [...]
been a while, hasn’t it?
Jeans are weird. I mean, the way they fit when you first buy them, then after a while you start noticing they’re tight when they’ve just come out of the washer, then after another while they’re just too tight, period, and you start thinking maybe it’s really you and not the jeans. But you go [...]
training
I just noticed something: I’m in week 12 of my Marathon Rowing training program. Since it’s got six four-week cycles plus a two week taper, that means that disregarding the taper, when I finish this week I’ll be halfway through. In theory I should erg 12km Saturday to finish this week, then 9km Sunday to [...]
another report on differing medical systems.
Quiet weekend, because Rudder was laid low by whatever he caught in the Netherlands – mostly just sniffly, with clogged sinuses and a cough, but it keep him really, relaly groggy all weekend. Even when the cleaning people were here, he stayed in bed until they needed to do that room because he just couldn’t [...]
quick fast
I haven’t fasted on Yom Kippur for years, but since I happened to remember what day it as today before I ate or drank anything, I thought I’d give it a shot – for part of the day, anyway. It’s about 11:30 AM now. The thing is, I’m not hungry as such, but I’m definitely [...]
an accomplished sort of weekend
It’s been a good weekend. As I wrote elsewhere, I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun finishing DFL in a regatta. I don’t feel too bad about the last-place finish, since I was racing women 20 years younger, who are training at a collegiate level, and I haven’t been in a boat for [...]
debate aftermath
It’s nice to hear that Biden won the race, but I don’t think that matters much. Who decides how to vote based on who won a VP debate? Only two things could have happened tonight that would matter: 1. I suppose Biden could have convinced some people he was too big a jerk to be [...]