Team Sports

It's such an effort to do team sports. Today this woman sitting behind me in the boat kept trying to tell me what to do, and it was really annoying. We only had seven in the boat today, so we were riding a little lopsided. Apparently when your side is down you are meant to life your oar handle to bring it up, but that's so counterintuitive, especially when you are already dragging on the water. We worked on that a lot today, but it was still hard. Anyhow, way too many people were telling me what to do, and I got a little flustered. On the bright side, I just tried to do better, I didn't snap at anyone. Go me.

We wound up rowing further then we have before today - according to my watch we went over 6.5 km in total. We went up a different part of the river, and when we went around a bend there was a college team there which made everything more complicated because it was a narrow part of the river. And they were really good, and we didn't want to look awful in front of them. Which was the cause of going further than normal. On the way back, we went without stopping for quite a while. We had a little bit where we were pretty balanced on the water, and it felt nice. Most of the time I was fighting to get the oar off the top of the water by pushing up on the handle. I really really wanted to stop, but you can't just stop when you are rowing in an 8, so I kept going. Good for exercise. After I was so tired I went home and took a nap.

I registered for the next session - it's MWTh evenings, so no more morning rowing. I'm a little nervous about it because it's the "experienced rowers" group, and I wouldn't really call myself experienced.