The Torch

Feeling pretty sick right now, its not a welcome addition to training fatigue. Yesterday my body was telling me No throughout the 6 hours of training but I continued to say Yes. I woke up today and decided to go for a sunrise jog to loosen the congestion up; whether it worked or not it was a beautiful run and a nice way to start the day. Our days are very full and focused right now and draw a close comparison to the way Dave is trying to get us to row. Full Power with every fibre of your being on the Drive and completely relaxed on the recovery. There is no end. If you start to think there is an end you are in for a rude awakening. The only way to get through these workouts is to come to peace with the idea that it never stops. This idea was most clear to me yesterday during our 8 min pieces at 10-12 spm. Dave was out in the launch right up on my stern telling me to pull the oar handles so hard to the bow that I break them. I can't do that(yet) but I think I got close yesterday. He doesn't want us thinking about any other stroke other than the one we are on. It has to be the hardest stroke we have ever taken. When you are focused that much on one stroke the pieces go by very fast. That being said, at the end, we are all wrecked. For any Trinity rowers reading, to put in perspective our afternoon workout yesterday...we did a light leg circuit(40') with 15 x 30 jumppies at the end. Then we did 300 race strokes on the water.