Evening Update

Hey Folks,
After writing this morning I went to Best Buy to get my computer looked at and, alas, it was not my wireless card that was faulty but the slot in my computer that it goes into, so it looks like I will no longer have wireless. I will have to trek ALL THE WAY downstairs to use the internet. Horrible, I know. It'll probably be better for me to not be attached to the internet at all times, anyways. I read a lot of my David Sedaris book today, Dress Your Children in Corduroy and Denim, and that's been a lot of fun. Bummed that my computer's messed up, but it's given me almost 5 years of good service and can still work if I use a cable. 5 years in computer time seems like the equivalent of a golden retriever living to be 90. Good stuff.

After Best Buy I was very hungry and didn't have much food besides granola bars, so I went to the "Cafe Nicole" (high class, eh?) downstairs in the hotel. Everything was pretty expensive and I didn't want a burger or anything like that so I had a moderately priced caesar salad that ended up being large and yummy. I was the only person in the place, guess they don't have too much traffic except for big groups at the hotel. It was nice to sit in a quiet place and eat and read and chill out for a while. After I had finished my salad at a leisurely pace, I went to my room and read some more until I fell asleep. Woke up a bit later and hung out with Silas and Osborne for a bit, then went to the Wawa to grab sandwiches for some dinner as practice had been moved to 7.

Practice was hot, real hot, even at 7. It wasn't an especially long practice, but we didn't some killer high intensity stuff, kind of learning exactly how hard you can truly pull. As Callahan said, "Make it extremely unsustainable." We had a speedcoach in the boat, which is a little computer thing that gives 500m splits like an erg, and we were trying to get the splits as low as we could at various rates, first by 4s, then 6s, then by 8s, having some friendly competition within the boat by 4s and 6s to see who could get it lowest. No one really stuck out, which is probably good. All the pairs were within a second or so of each other. By 8s we were really flying, and eventually got the rate up around a 36, and started to see some pretty crazy low splits. At least, they seemed really good to us; the coaches don't really tell us if they're fast or not. Regardless, I think we have some top end power, now we just have to use it properly.

Now I'm back at the hotel, chilling in the little closet/computer space. I'm going to go bike in the hotel's exercise room for a bit because my body is kind of sore and stiff from traveling and working hard today. Then it will be glorious bed time, with practice at 8 tomorrow instead of 7, which is nice. Talked to Craig this afternoon, which was entertaining as usual. I think that's about all I got... I got car magazines in the mail today from my mom so I'm a happy boy. Much better than this morning. Onward.