I came to a realization
Yesterday as I was walking to our erg session, I was thinking about how much I didn’t want to be going there, especially since I feel like I’m doing worse than everybody else. And I was trying to figure out why I was doing so badly when I realized that pretty much everyone on the crew now has a bike to go everywhere. And I think it’s more my strength than my being out of shape that hurts my split time. I just don’t get as much strength into the pull, and they say that it’s more your legs than the arms where you get the power. And biking I think probably builds up leg strength quite a bit more than walking, even if it is walking really quickly. So I don’t know if that’s really what it is, but that’s what I’m telling myself. There’s stationary bike in the same room as the ergs here at Regent’s, so I might start doing that some. I don’t mind riding a bike nearly as much as I hate doing ergs.
Yesterday was a pretty good day. After a completely unproductive morning before lectures, the rest of the day I did work quite a bit. This morning I went to the library and did some more work. I’m trying to get everything done by Saturday in case we do actually have this race thing on Sunday, which will take up a lot of time.
Oh, also, another quick update, I got tickets to see Wicked in London!! Jennifer, Kristie, and Ryan (all G-town people) are going with Verity and me. Celia backed out because she has family coming this weekend and she says she can’t give up that much of a Monday on work, which stinks. But I’m still excited, so that’s where I’ll be Monday evening. Yay!!