I’ve been thinking a while about getting back into rowing. I really should get back into better shape, and — sorry, Lisa — I really don’t like running.
Luckily, Spokane has one — count ‘em, one — amateur rowing club, called the Spokane River Rowing Association. I looked into joining it when I moved to Spokane last May, but I quickly got that night-cops gig, which erased any possibility of making 6 p.m. practices Tuesday and Thursday.
Well, now I’m headed back, and I probably won’t have quite outrageous a work schedule. Perhaps I can actually make it to practices this time. Even in the SRRA practices in the morning, I should be able to make it (begrudgingly).
Shoot! I should have updated while in Seattle, so I could use a Seattle dateline. Well, the trip was too fun to muddle up with blogging.
To make a long story short, Lisa and I drove to Seattle for the weekend. The motivation was two-fold: 1) to surprise my mom on Mother’s Day, and 2) to get away from Pullman for a change. We were successful on both accounts.
I have little to say here, because Lisa has all the photos, except that we went and we had fun. A little family time, a little time with friends, a little time exploring the city, a little time running (and falling), a little (a lot of?) time showing Lisa my old rowing waters.
That reminds me: I did take one picture, when we were out on the coach’s launch (my friend Bigelow coaches at our old rowing club) during crew practice Monday. The rigger on this Hudson double snapped (along a repair weld). This rarely happens; I’d never seen it before. Before it broke, this shell also flipped with two novice rowers in it. They got back in and ended up shivering the rest of practice.
Here is a sneak preview of the video I did on the WSU women’s rowing team. It will be up on the S-R website sometime this weekend, either Friday (because it’s done) or Sunday (because that’s when my article is running). But you, loyal readers, get to see it now.
I used to row and take piano lessons. This was, you know, half a decade ago when I was in high school.
Today I spent the day editing a video on WSU rowing and playing along to Ben Folds on the piano.
Ah, the memories.
Actually, I figured out how to play the entirety of “Kate” today — well, the piano part, obviously. The notes and whatnot aren’t hard, but it’s technically difficult and the rhythms take some time to get down pat.
Nick Eaton
