TG's Rowing Thread

gs78 wrote:

TG wrote:

Mhm
So it's a bad thing to get that, and we didn't last weekend.

THIS weekend however we are racing candian teams and they are all amazing....

Why is that?

They practice all year round and they are all like.... 7 feet tall.

LoL. Don't you hate that?!

YES! The tallest person in the boat I race in is 5'4", I'm 5'3, and all the other teams have 6 and 7 feet tall people.... Plus they aren't in any sports other than crew and all year round they practice and condition for the season. It's ridiculous

TG wrote:

gs78 wrote:

TG wrote:

Mhm
So it's a bad thing to get that, and we didn't last weekend.

THIS weekend however we are racing candian teams and they are all amazing....

Why is that?

They practice all year round and they are all like.... 7 feet tall.

They must be Giants!

gs78 wrote:

TG wrote:

gs78 wrote:

TG wrote:

Mhm
So it's a bad thing to get that, and we didn't last weekend.

THIS weekend however we are racing candian teams and they are all amazing....

Why is that?

They practice all year round and they are all like.... 7 feet tall.

They must be Giants!

They might be more like 6'... or 6' 5", but thats still a giant compared to me!

Gotta wake up at 1:15 am and get on a bus to go to London, Canada. I'm gonna be sooooo tired!!!!

Good Luck TG!

THANKS

Well... five boats got metals. 1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze.

None of those boats were mine. This was my boats events....: We got the boat and walked it down and got onto a dock that was too small for the eight. I row bow so I was the first on the dock and on the end. I got extremely close to the edge and screamed to let it run because I was going to fall in. Well then they kept pushing and i ended up in the water, totally soaked, and scratched up my leg. NOT FUN. Then we raced, were in third place (out of 5) for majority of the race, then people gave up and we got DFL

Then more drama....

But all in all it was a good day

Oh, then at the end everyone grabbed people and threw them in.

Oh and i would have got kicked off the team yesterday had it not been the last regatta

Our banquet is on the 11th. I'm pretty excited to see who gets what in the awards.

Also, I get an erg this summer. Kinda excited because my new coach wants my time down to 8 minutes, but it's going to be hard.

AND my new coach wants me to make the light weight 8 next year because that boat is expected to win a lot of races. That will also be hard but I really want this coach to be happy with me so I'm going to try. This coach is amazing and actually knows what he's talking about.

Last year was a joke compared to this year. Day 2 of conditioning, and we ran an hour and 20 minutes. I died. I love my coaches, but this sucks. I realized how much out of shape I am today.

ouch!

I seriously can't walk at all. It's awful. This is gonna be a long season. Of course, my coach is convinced I will quit, he doesn't know me that well yet I guess.

I'm praying for your success, TG.

Thanks! I have to seat race this year, and that's why my coach is pushing me, and I understand it, but it doesn't make it less hard.

I'm not looking forward to my conditioning at all. I think I might not play, dunno yet. But if I do, I need to throw and hit baddddd.

Conditioning is the worst thing in the world. I hate it. I don't know how I am going to survive this year.

I have learned today just how much the parents in my community suck.

The levy failed, making us cut $660K in funds this year, and another 1.6M next year.

Let's add insult to injury: Myself along with about 50 other students went to an away game for our basketball game, painted, and got all rowdy and spirited FOR OUR SCHOOL AND CLASSMATES. the parents then complained that we were standing, in the student section. So they went to the cops and made us sit down. So we had to move to the other end of the student section and when they tried to complain, we cheered "Old people move over" and we told them it was the student section. They complained more, and our principal told them "It's the student section, what the hell can I do? Complain because my students are being spirited? No." And he got up with us =D

and to your principal!!!

Haha. Well at least your principal is cool! Mine would have just yelled at us all.... probably suspended us.

=D

Gotta love it.

hey hey you all

Hey!!!! I haven't been on here in a while... otherwise I would have said hello sooner

Haha i know haha i haven't bee on alot either but hey baseball seasonnnnn is hhhheeere

Yesss I won't be able to watch much of it till summer though

How have things been going lately, TG?

That sucks why? lol

Rowing. Gone every weekend and practices every day.

Well, things haven't been great. Especially with crew. I've been having a really hard time breathing so I went to the doctor. Last year when I went to the doctor for it they found out I had a 70% lung function, which was really bad. When I went the other day they found out has now dropped to 52%.

ahhhhhhh rowwwwwwinggg

row row row your boat
row row row your boat
row row row your boat

haha. We get yelled at when we sing that song