Crew and Crickets
Sep. 21st, 2012 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI don't have much that's especially profound to remark upon at the moment. Weekdays are completely occupied by rowing and research at the moment.
I got out for a 6k in the single yesterday. It wasn't nearly as bad as I feared it would be, although the boat I'm using out here is too small for me (by a fine margin) and is so old and broken-down that I can watch it flex every time I take a stroke. The water was flat, with only a light breeze, so that helped as well. Oddly, the most frustrating part of the piece was that I started out ahead of my women's eight, and they failed to catch me. I'm still figuring out how to juggle the various experience levels and degrees of commitment for the men's and women's boats. It turns out that can be a complicated project, as one must consider some level of interpersonal interactions on top of skill levels and prior experience. Maybe by the end of the fall I'll get the hang of managing it all. Maybe. Anyway, I had hoped they'd be quick enough to catch and pass me on the 6k, but they were not. While that was slightly satisfying for me, it was not at all satisfying for that boat.
I'm getting a lot of crew talk in at work now, too, because I'm employing one of my rowers to help on the cricket experiment. She didn't actually know the job involved working with me when she applied, but she was one of the better-qualified workers for the position. It's both useful and challenging to have the added crew-talk. In some respects, it's better for me to be ignorant about stuff and wait for rowers to come talk to me, but in other respects, it's good to get feedback and plot and scheme. Plus, she's helped me get caught up with the cricket egg counting, which has been a huge project, and the crew chatter passes the time while we work away at that tedious project.
I should have gone rowing this morning as well, but between one thing and another I didn't leave the lab until too late last night, so I decided sleep was a higher priority. I'll try to get out early tomorrow instead.
I got out for a 6k in the single yesterday. It wasn't nearly as bad as I feared it would be, although the boat I'm using out here is too small for me (by a fine margin) and is so old and broken-down that I can watch it flex every time I take a stroke. The water was flat, with only a light breeze, so that helped as well. Oddly, the most frustrating part of the piece was that I started out ahead of my women's eight, and they failed to catch me. I'm still figuring out how to juggle the various experience levels and degrees of commitment for the men's and women's boats. It turns out that can be a complicated project, as one must consider some level of interpersonal interactions on top of skill levels and prior experience. Maybe by the end of the fall I'll get the hang of managing it all. Maybe. Anyway, I had hoped they'd be quick enough to catch and pass me on the 6k, but they were not. While that was slightly satisfying for me, it was not at all satisfying for that boat.
I'm getting a lot of crew talk in at work now, too, because I'm employing one of my rowers to help on the cricket experiment. She didn't actually know the job involved working with me when she applied, but she was one of the better-qualified workers for the position. It's both useful and challenging to have the added crew-talk. In some respects, it's better for me to be ignorant about stuff and wait for rowers to come talk to me, but in other respects, it's good to get feedback and plot and scheme. Plus, she's helped me get caught up with the cricket egg counting, which has been a huge project, and the crew chatter passes the time while we work away at that tedious project.
I should have gone rowing this morning as well, but between one thing and another I didn't leave the lab until too late last night, so I decided sleep was a higher priority. I'll try to get out early tomorrow instead.
