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Dreams, rowing
Oct. 24th, 2007 08:07 amLast night I dreamed that I was packing things up to move back to Seattle. Only I kept having doubts that it was time to leave--I wanted to check with my dissertation committee to make sure that it was okay to just up and leave before my dissertation was finished.
Troubling. I think my subconscious is trying to help me figure out how to stay motivated and make progress on this thing.
K and I tried to go rowing this morning, but the gusts of wind that began on Sunday are still creating fitful conditions. We rowed about 100 m and then decided it wasn't worth it in the dark by ourselves to fight the erratic gusts and swells, so we turned around and came back in. Instead, we worked on planning out our training calendar for the next month. Putting together a training calendar is always entertaining and interesting. It's easy to be really ambitious when noting things on paper, but I feel a bit sorry for my future self because she's going to be doing a lot of intense rowing. Anyway, the calendar should take us through the end of November, and then we'll re-evaluate because we'll be starting the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge (erg 200,000 m between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, or an average of 6,250m per day, including weekends).
I always find it hard to stay motivated when there isn't some kind of goal on the near horizon; we'd been desperately hoping beyond the point of hope that we would be able to go to Louisiana for a rowing marathon on November 10 (it was amazing and fun last year), but that's not going to happen and so we have to look elsewhere to keep November rowing exciting.
In the larger scheme, this is just another part of working out how rowing fits into my life. It isn't an easy commitment and in fact comes at considerable costs, but at the same time it's a big part of who I am, and it continues to teach me new things. And really, my fellow rowers are my family here.
Mneh. Time to go to school.
Troubling. I think my subconscious is trying to help me figure out how to stay motivated and make progress on this thing.
K and I tried to go rowing this morning, but the gusts of wind that began on Sunday are still creating fitful conditions. We rowed about 100 m and then decided it wasn't worth it in the dark by ourselves to fight the erratic gusts and swells, so we turned around and came back in. Instead, we worked on planning out our training calendar for the next month. Putting together a training calendar is always entertaining and interesting. It's easy to be really ambitious when noting things on paper, but I feel a bit sorry for my future self because she's going to be doing a lot of intense rowing. Anyway, the calendar should take us through the end of November, and then we'll re-evaluate because we'll be starting the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge (erg 200,000 m between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, or an average of 6,250m per day, including weekends).
I always find it hard to stay motivated when there isn't some kind of goal on the near horizon; we'd been desperately hoping beyond the point of hope that we would be able to go to Louisiana for a rowing marathon on November 10 (it was amazing and fun last year), but that's not going to happen and so we have to look elsewhere to keep November rowing exciting.
In the larger scheme, this is just another part of working out how rowing fits into my life. It isn't an easy commitment and in fact comes at considerable costs, but at the same time it's a big part of who I am, and it continues to teach me new things. And really, my fellow rowers are my family here.
Mneh. Time to go to school.
