This Will Bore You

This post should bore you. Today was boring, and I come to my blog not in excitment with notable things to remark upon, but in utter boredom, with nothing else to do before it reaches a reasonable time when I don't think I'll wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to get back to sleep. Alas, read on if you're as bored as I am.

Had a good morning practice, mostly just paddling and continuing to get things more together. Did a little bit of rate lifting but no real pieces. Came in feeling good relative to most mornings recently where we've been worked pretty hard and I've felt pooped. Despite being upbeat and not destroyed, I still felt kinda sleepy and after watching some race cars on TV, I took a nice 3 hour nap. Woke up, had "lunch" around 4, went to practice (still full from lunch... too close). Practice was good, and we did the 250m on/250m off pieces again, but only 12 this time. We're starting to push rate (28-36), which can exacerbate problems or make free speed really fun. I've been rowing behind Silas and with Will England behind me, which is a fun stern 3. The first 4 pieces (2000m) were pretty rough and punchy, and we lost all 4, so we went into the second set trying to relax and lengthen out. This seemed to work well and the boat coalesced around acceleration and we were finally able to pull together and get some speed. We won the next 8 pieces, with a couple of the last set feeling really good with lots of relaxation, send, and speed. It was fun to get faster over the day and start beating the other boat, which had been faster almost all the time. So we came in with the wind picking up and our morale a bit higher after finally feeling some good things. Today was also probably the windiest/choppiest day on the Connecticut I've seen thus far. Came home, barbecued a burger and listened to some more new music and read Automobile. Now I'm pooped, may watch some Planet Earth until it seems like a reasonable time to go to bed. Looking very forward to sleep.


Listened to too much new music to list it all, but a few tracks that stuck out:
"Notorious"- Turbulence (remixed by Diplo)
"Meat and Potatoes"- Belle & Sebastian, Funny Little Frog
"Littlest Things"- Lily Allen, Alright, Still
"Intro"- Chromeo, Fancy Footwork