As Sierra mentioned
last week, we’ve all been eager and anxious to get started with the Spring 2013
season. A week and a half ago we had our first official practice of the season,
beginning at 12:01 am. We call this practice Midnight Madness, and even though
we are practicing in the middle of the night we run on adrenaline and
excitement for the coming season. Two days later we had our annual ergothon to
fundraise for Partners in Health and for our spring break training trip to
Chestertown, Maryland. We moved five ergs to the entrance of the campus center
and we each took two one-hour shifts erging. Many stuck around to cheer on
teammates and make posters! For the rest of our first week together we
completed our fitness testing. Then, this week, we have been digging into our
indoor training workouts and secondaries.
I stayed on campus
over Wintersession, and even though I had a few friends on campus with me, the
erg loft was pretty lonely. It made me so excited the first day back on campus
when the erg loft was full--I couldn’t stop smiling! Luckily one of our captains Jess Frey took a
video, enhanced by some joyous comments. Now, during the past week and a half
of winter training we have been pulling from each of our teammates’ energy and
becoming inspired by each other’s drive. Even when we’re not in boats we still
pull for each other. But speaking of boats, the countdown until we get on the
water is getting shorter and shorter!
Maggie West '14
