B-Town to C-Town
It has been slightly less than one month since the commencement of Winter Training, and much to our surprise and delight, Blue Crew is back in business with our good friend, Charles.
Yesterday morning we left for the river at 4:45 am (the early bird special) for some serious spring-cleaning of the boat shack. Boats were taken off of their dusty racks to be wiped down, assessed for any damage that our furry squirrel friends had caused over winter, and the shack was given a thorough back to front deep clean. Even the floor was swept.
Besides the unbelievable efficiency of the team throughout this spring-cleaning process, and seeing former captain Kate Spelman, the best part of the morning was when the red four was put into slings. “Roll down to waist, and roll!” was called, the boat was rolled, and the slings placed, when out like a loaded spring came a small furry animal (later determined to be a squirrel) right at Tess Ruderman’s and Kathryn Goffin’s faces. I’m sure the resulting screams were the due to uncontrollable fits of joy…
Yesterday morning also marked the first day that our new novices, Jen Marble, Hannah Van der Eb and Sarah Halbert were introduced to our beautiful plot of land in Watertown…welcome to heaven, ladies :)
Today was the first row! With three eights (the Colonel wasn’t able to make it, nor was the Ames, the O’Neal or the D-Money) and a four out on the water, it made this rainy day a little bit brighter :) Just technique today, and an intro for the novices about the rowing basics was enough to get us even more excited about you-know-what…SPEED.
Back to some indoor news… great developments have happened athletically in the last week as well. Coogs finished last in this round of beep tests. For those of you who have ever done a beep test, you know that’s a good thing. And get this…she finished at a 12-5. SCREAMIN’ FAST! Thursday’s 30 minute test produced some incredible numbers, and I believe Lyndsey Abt pulled the team’s first sub 2:00 average split (1:57) for the duration of the piece this year! GREAT JOB LYNDSEY!!!
In other wonderful news: team laundry is still going strong, I showered 4 times this week so I could avoid further public embarrassment, and the Resolute looks (and smells) delicious…we’ve also managed to keep it out of harms way…we love you softball, but bats and balls don’t go well with carbon fiber. Also, coach Regan Bernhard is going to Barbados to meet her mother who is about to become the oldest woman to ROW across the Atlantic!! She will be back on Wednesday before we leave for Maryland. Congrats to Regan and her mother, Suzanne Pinto. We can’t wait to hear from Regan about how she’s doing!
Without shadow of a doubt, we are all ready to get out of B-Town to head down to C-Town, focus on nothing but sleeping, eating and rowing, and have a great time with our teammates :)
Oh, and here are some numbers for ya :
- 1 day till we christen the new Resolute 8+
- 6 days till we leave for spring break
- 14 Days until our first race (against Washington College)
Casey Sedlack '11
