Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Exams, Victoria, Seattle, Oh My!
Sorry about the delay, its been a while since I last added a post. Anyways, exams finally finished, and boy was that a stressful month, way too drawn out but hopefully my scores have improved and a got some good grades. My training hasn't been stellar but I've been putting in work, anything helps. Victoria is beautiful as usual, and I met with the UVic rowing coach, looks like I may be able to row with them this summer. It will be intense training, some days will have three workouts and I'll be training with guys better than me, around my age as well. I'm looking forward to that, but first I have step up the training, follow my offseason eating plan, and improve those RADAR erg scores drastically. I'm currently in Seattle, and the city is amazing! Such amazing hospitality here, the restaurants Purple and Lola are incredible. Moreover, Pikes Street Market is amazing, so cool to see the vendors just be in their element. Anyways, thats all for now. Just gotta' keep at it.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
More Exams!!!
Well,
Two of my toughest exams have come and passed. Spending about 8 hours in the Library here almost every day. Just took a couple days off. Getting to the gym is so hard, every morning so far I have tried to get up at 7 30 to go do some cardio, and it does not happen. I hit snooze for at least 2 hours straight. I guess it comes down to motivation and just doing it. I met with a sports nutritionist today in Kingston, and it went well. Above average on a lot of the body measurements. Only negative thing that came out of it was that the idea of me being Celiac may have come back to haunt me. I originally was thought to have it in Grade 12 but the symptoms weren't consistent. It looks like now, its back to the drawing board and getting more testing done to prove once and for all. This could greatly affect my offseason performance and results, so I need to get an appointment for that done. So excited for exams to be over, and head back out West and continue my training.
Two of my toughest exams have come and passed. Spending about 8 hours in the Library here almost every day. Just took a couple days off. Getting to the gym is so hard, every morning so far I have tried to get up at 7 30 to go do some cardio, and it does not happen. I hit snooze for at least 2 hours straight. I guess it comes down to motivation and just doing it. I met with a sports nutritionist today in Kingston, and it went well. Above average on a lot of the body measurements. Only negative thing that came out of it was that the idea of me being Celiac may have come back to haunt me. I originally was thought to have it in Grade 12 but the symptoms weren't consistent. It looks like now, its back to the drawing board and getting more testing done to prove once and for all. This could greatly affect my offseason performance and results, so I need to get an appointment for that done. So excited for exams to be over, and head back out West and continue my training.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Exams and Training...Oil and Milk
I am taking a short study break, only after doing a pathetic 40 minutes of Finance review...all right, more like 30 minutes. Today and yesterday I have woken up early, 7 45-8ish with the mindset to get some cardio in. When that dreaded alarm goes off, I hit snooze all the way till 945. By then its too late, and it's time to go to the library. This is much harder than I thought it was going to be! I did weights last night, and went back to the library...IMPOSSIBLE. I was so tired, all I did was look at my stats textbook and just wish it would teach me everything itself. If only we could take a usb chip and plug it into our heads. Meanwhile, I am trying my best to get some sort of workout in everyday, but finding time is hard. I am still learning how to properly master university education, still a lot of skills I need to learn, but its a process and I am slowly getting better. Anyways, I give credit to all the athletes out there that can juggle sports and achieve +3.3 GPA's, this is going to a be lot harder than I thought
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Why Now?
So...this is my first time ever writing on a space that potentially everyone can read. So why now? Why would I create a blog and just spill everything out? Well, I guess part of it is to voice my thoughts on what it is going on in my life. You see, I just picked up this sport, its called Rowing. Rowing has been one of biggest things in my life the last year and a bit. My floor mate Honz, this was in Residence at school, wanted me to come to the open tryouts with him. I resisted at first but did it anyways. After a gruelling set of tests that made me want to puke; peak power on an erg machine, 10 minute row on the erg and a variety of strength tests, the tryout was complete. We were told we would hear a couple days later about our results. Four days later, I made the team and Honz didn't....woops. Well, season started and my boat flopped. I stuck around for a bit, but ended up leaving because I was no longer needed. I gained an immense amount of weight, or so I thought in my head, FRESHMAN 15. Anyways, I decided to train for rowing over the summer. This was the first time I had ever really focused on a sport so immensely. The first thing my coach, Doug White, says to me is, in order to be good, you need to get fit. I was 222 pounds at the time, rather bulky at 6"2. The summer went on and I met some amazing people. One person whom I rowed with, Derek Vinge, ended up getting invites to the national team and just rowed at the Pan Am games. To me, it struck a cord. If he can make nationals and I rowed with him, why can't I? Fast Forward to present day, I am now on the Junior Varsity Rowing Team after 5 months of training, down 34 pounds, and currently doing our everlasting, never ending offseason training.
So why now? I thought I would share my journey of the Daily Life of a rower trying to see how far he can get in this sport while being new at it. As well, how he can handle the constant pressures of school, a social life and the quest to be the best rower there is.
So why now? I thought I would share my journey of the Daily Life of a rower trying to see how far he can get in this sport while being new at it. As well, how he can handle the constant pressures of school, a social life and the quest to be the best rower there is.
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