As you may know, my screen name has been a bit misleading for the last three years. I quit my rowing team in 2005 because the 5:30 a.m. practice time and the hour commute to my job were incompatible, not to mention how much my family hated it. Now that I don't have the commute any more, I was still a little reluctant to rejoin the team because the early morning practice would still be difficult to work into our schedule. But a chance meeting with a former teammate at the grocery store revealed that there is now a team practicing at the much more mommy-friendly hour of 10 a.m. I emailed the coach and the next thing I knew, I was in the boat!
Rowing is like riding a bike and it isn't. I remembered the basics of the motion but my technique will still need to be fine-tuned quite a bit. The coach was all over me about not over-reaching, slowing down the slide, cleaning up my catch...All things that sounded familiar.
Anyway, they practice again tomorrow. I can't wait.
I remember you talking about it when we used to do live chats but did not realize it had been 3 years.