Waking up

[rebeccmeister]

I had a dream last night that I was in a movie theater and wanted nothing more than to fall asleep. Problem was, I was already asleep.

When my alarm went off this morning, my first thought was, "Oh, just ten more minutes." So I hit the snooze button. My second thought, a minute later, was, "If you sleep in, you're going to be very mad at yourself for skipping practice."

I got up, and then I had a fairly nice row.

I'm in a difficult situation with rowing at the moment. I'm under some pressure to re-join a rowing program (COT, for those who know what that is), but whenever I row with that group, I end up sweep rowing, and they also never put together a training calendar, so my sculling suffers. I don't want to sweep row anymore. I want to train systematically. And I can't afford to join the program, so I won't. Regatta travel is already prohibitively expensive, and there's no point in throwing more money away.

Trouble is, one of my sculling buddies likes the program because she doesn't enjoy rowing in the 1x, which could mean I'll be completely on my own for at least 2 mornings a week (if not 3). The major issue here is a safety issue, because often I'm the only rower at the boat yard at 5 am (the other program launches from a separate site), and there are often sketchy people around the boat yard at that hour. I'm getting better at teaching myself to get down to the boathouse when I'm tempted to sleep in, but if anything were to happen I wouldn't have any safety net.

But at least I get to row.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. Unfortunately I don't have any helpful advice to offer - my method would certainly work for you (that is, sleep with someone who also rows at o'dark'thirty) but of course there's an issue with finding one first.

Ted points out that it's often busier on Tu/Th than on MWF, with some of the Rio people. So that could be something to check out, if you haven't already. But you probably have.