Set at 8.

Today I had my first outing for King's Boat Club (i.e. crew)!

We were set at 8.
(a lot of the time. more than expected, at least.)



Totally out of shape; haven't really done much of anything physical since mid-February accident. Hopefully will get into the groove and suit up soon. Lack of post-practice stretching bad for muscles, but I should remember to do them on my own, at least. Found the erg room at King's and it's a tiny tiny little cellar room in the basement underneath some stairwell in a corner, that you get to by going through two meeting rooms and down an obscure set of stairs. WHAT. I wish Cambridge would compile money from its 30+ colleges and build a freakin' university athletics center. Benefit/Cost >> 1. It's odd that the colleges here are so independent.

Got off on a random tangent. Mostly wanted to comment that I'd had my first "outing" for crew today (i.e. practice, not a picnic) and smirk at some funny terminology.

outing = practice
easy there = wane'nuff/let it run
bow-side = starboard
stroke-side = port
(regardless of which side the boat is rigged)
front-stop = catch
back-stop = finish
take off the run = hold water


We have 3 weekday practices at 6:30am and 1 weekend practice in the afternoon. I'm getting up on Monday at 5:30am to bike over to the boathouse in time. fml?