post NSR 1:
I am angry. Brian is angry. We are both angry. Time to make an angry lightweight double.
Coming into this racing, I knew I had progressed technically and physiologically since last year. But, I was not racing with a chip on my shoulder or much emotion at all. I was concentrating on making the changes that we have been working on and implementing them in a race situation. While it would have been nice to have that teeth grinding raw emotion in my racing this week, I have learned that personally...I have trouble faking it. It has to be genuine and I can't always have it on tap. It seems to come to be each year as I get closer and closer to my long term goal...which this year is the lightweight 2x trials in April.
After the singles racing today, I was listening to some people talking about who's favored to win the 2x trials and who should row with who based on their singles speed. I was being a fly on the wall just "packing my things" but I could feel the raw power come into my stomach and tighten every muscle in my core. It is the feeling I get when I know I could start running, rowing, or do anything for as long as I have to in order to achieve my goal. I was getting so angry just listening to people talk about how so and so was faster than me and how they would be good in a double. Be careful what you say...you never know who might use it for fuel and dominate you.
I couldn't be more excited to start work in the double with Dave on Monday. Peter, Tom, Brian, and I will finally be going head to head in doubles. The singles will be on the rack for good. We have been taught a double style of rowing all year and now we will get to use it. Last year I was trying to move a single in anyway I could and there are certainly ways to make that boat move that are different than the style we have been going for. This year I feel like I am ready to row being Brian and maximize his stroke down the course. We all have the same focus for how to move the 2x and I can't wait to see it in action in the coming weeks. And like I said, I AM JUST SO ANGRY. The next three weeks will be extremely challenging with difficult training along with losing weight- but having pure motivation coursing through my veins will make it all possible.
I am excited to see how fast we can go.
I am angry. Brian is angry. We are both angry. Time to make an angry lightweight double.
Coming into this racing, I knew I had progressed technically and physiologically since last year. But, I was not racing with a chip on my shoulder or much emotion at all. I was concentrating on making the changes that we have been working on and implementing them in a race situation. While it would have been nice to have that teeth grinding raw emotion in my racing this week, I have learned that personally...I have trouble faking it. It has to be genuine and I can't always have it on tap. It seems to come to be each year as I get closer and closer to my long term goal...which this year is the lightweight 2x trials in April.
After the singles racing today, I was listening to some people talking about who's favored to win the 2x trials and who should row with who based on their singles speed. I was being a fly on the wall just "packing my things" but I could feel the raw power come into my stomach and tighten every muscle in my core. It is the feeling I get when I know I could start running, rowing, or do anything for as long as I have to in order to achieve my goal. I was getting so angry just listening to people talk about how so and so was faster than me and how they would be good in a double. Be careful what you say...you never know who might use it for fuel and dominate you.
I couldn't be more excited to start work in the double with Dave on Monday. Peter, Tom, Brian, and I will finally be going head to head in doubles. The singles will be on the rack for good. We have been taught a double style of rowing all year and now we will get to use it. Last year I was trying to move a single in anyway I could and there are certainly ways to make that boat move that are different than the style we have been going for. This year I feel like I am ready to row being Brian and maximize his stroke down the course. We all have the same focus for how to move the 2x and I can't wait to see it in action in the coming weeks. And like I said, I AM JUST SO ANGRY. The next three weeks will be extremely challenging with difficult training along with losing weight- but having pure motivation coursing through my veins will make it all possible.
I am excited to see how fast we can go.
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