You watch the water as you prepare your boat Sensing its mood as you would a wild creature You slide carefully as it slumbers beneath you. For you have learned to be one with the beast. Rising sun strikes the surface and wakes it from its slumber. It stirs and stretches and sends small riffles […]
The end of 2019 that is. I survived my first head race in my single. Once it finally happened. I signed up for 5 races in my single, and ended up racing 2, for one reason or another. Row for the Cure: 9/15/19: cancelled due to poor weather conditions Lake Salmish Salmon row: 9/21/19: signed […]
It’s September. And I haven’t posted since January. I think this means I haven’t spent enough time outside my comfort zone. Oh, I have been racing, and training, and rowing in different places, but it’s not entirely new anymore. I’m not scared out of my mind. Or I wasn’t till now. Here’s a summary of […]
I was called Super Racer the other day. It caught me completely by surprise. My results weren’t exactly stellar for my first year of sculling racing. But then it was explained that the term referred to the number of regattas I attended. I only missed a few that I could drive to, for a total […]
How do you define your comfort zone? Is it as simple as the place you feel comfortable? Step outside it often enough, and that boundary between comfort and challenge gets blurred. I have spent the last 18 months busting the boundaries of my comfort zone, working at getting comfortable in new places, doing new things. […]
Many people have asked me questions about my racing experience at the World Rowing Masters Regatta last weekend in Sarasota, Florida. Questions ranged from How was the weather? to What was the most memorable part? I will attempt to answer all of them. If you have a question that I missed, please comment it! The […]
I try not to notice that knot of panic growing in my belly. When I think about that row to the start of my single race in front of the WHOLE WORLD – in one week! – it slides away into the recesses of my mind like a thief. A thief of my resolve, my […]
Almost a year ago, September 25, 2017, I raced 5.5 miles with Whatcom Rowing Association in the Salmon Roe on Lake Samish, WA. I was stroke seat in a women’s 8. Our coxswain was a young lady from WWU, who had only a few months before cox’d her womens 8 to a NCAA Division II […]
Welcome to my humble blog – random thoughts, training tips, exciting news of my adventures, and maybe some cool photos – as I live outside my comfort zone to train, row, and race. I hope you can get outside your comfort zone too! It’s fun out here!