FIRST POST OF AUGUST!

Since i decided you guys needed a good read I am going to go ahead and update this thing :)
The month of July has simply FLOWN past! A combination of constantly working and finally having my boyfriend home from Paraguay has just made time fly.
It's also been a slight struggle-fest. I think I kinda burned myself out on the whole "make fitness part of your lifestyle" and took a slide downhill but I'm slowly climbing back to consistently working out every day. I've been trying to think of more interesting things like hiking and races but my work schedule has me from 130-1030 almost every night.
I've decided I need to make two signs at my work
the first one:

I am not the front desk and I CANNOT fix your room keys

the second one:

Refunds are not directly proportional to the volume of your voice.

seriously.... i know people pay a LOT of money to get to alaska. but really? there is no need to cuss out someone you don't know behind a desk. At least now I know I never want to work with customer services.... i guess knowing what I don't wanna do is closer then where i was before the summer started
but the job has it's perks, like discounted tours in Denali
me and my best friend paige took a road trip on our days off and went to Denali, stayed at their lodge for 30 bucks a night, went white water rafting on the Nenana river (which were class 3+ rapids and SO MUCH FUN) for free, went on ATV tours for free, and had dinner for free.
we were also suppose to go on a helicopter tour of Denali but we were so tired we accidently slept through it but thank god... it was free.
if ANY of you ever wanna come to Denali, seriously tell me I'll get you a good deal. and yes i'm trying to bribe any and all to come visit me in alaska... i will stoop that low... is it working?

Appart from that I'm trying to at least run every day before work now, and get a little more of my midnight sun in before I head back to washington. It's midnight here now and it's actually semi-dark. like twilight-ey.....

Oh i was at my friend paiges house the other day and there were other people who i work with there and i wore my new attire wherever i go in fairbanks... which is normally brightly colored spandex from Vals' customized (i have had so many people ask about my spandex and i'm kind of a big deal :P ) and i may have blown some people away with the outrageousness of my outfit and it just made me laugh because i'm quite use to seeing others in similar clothing choices :) that will be nice to be around once more
and can i just say
i'm super pumped to get a novice buddy :)
i hope i do not frighten them
because i LOOOOOOOOVE mine :)

AND I'M SUPER SAD THAT LIKE 82.6 % OF THE TEAM IS NOT GOING TO BE AT SCHOOL THIS FIRST SEMESTER BACK! I kinda had forgotten that a good portion of people are going on exchange, which from what Robert tells me is THE BEST thing you can possibly do. He actually kinda is talking me into the idea as well so I may be looking into that one :)
but alas so sad, but still exciting :)
I hope eveyrone liked my novel today/tonight
i'm going to go fool around on my guitar now :)
LINDSAY I STILL WANNA JAM WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!
i love and miss you all and will look forward to seeing you all within the month :)
From the Farthest North Member of UPS CREW
-Jovia

Aloha!!!

At this very moment I'm peeling lika very colorful lizard. Skin is a very amazing thing. Kinda mind blowing actually. Yes, I got my 3rd-in-my-life worst sunburn. But is was worth it cuz I was in HAWAII!!! Last week I gotta go join my friend Grace up in Oahu where she's interning at SeaLife park and we had a blast. I decided that "when I grow up" I wanna live somewhere tropical and it's only 14 days to Hawaii by kayak. And you all are big, beefy roohers so I expect you to visit me in 12 days max. I'll be coxing you in spirit.
So first day we hung out on the beach like typical tourists and made a rad sandcastle (you're never too old to make one of those...moat and all), and went wave bobbing (salt water+nose=spew), and watched hot surfer dudes and saw lil "squishies" (think finding nemo) all over the sand washed up just waiting for a stray foot to sting. I also decided that sushi should be a food group in its own and we need to have more bonding experiences at Sushi Revolution in Tacoma.
We went snorkeling and I saw soooo many fish of all colors and shapes and sizes and I felt like a lil kid I was so excited. But it took me a while to figure out the mask and breathing tube thingamajiger...My fav fish is the parrot fish and I chased it all round the reef trying to get a pic of it. I also saw Gill and Dory and they send their love to y'all. Later that night we went into Honolulu and joined the night life a bit and watched Inception. My mind was blown. "Fall over, DAMN IT!!!" If you don't know what I mean, watch it. We also went sea kayaking in the bay that bred hammerhead sharks, running on the beach (calves!!!!), and hiking up to this lil lighthouse that was so beautiful and cuuuuute. ;) Pretty much I didn't wanna leave.
But I had to leave eventually cuz Alex came to visit this weekend!!! I had a blast showing him around ma homefront and hanging with the fam and riding carosels and floating down rivers and kicking his butt in a cherry pit spit contest and other such nonsense. :) And now he's gonna spend his next month backpacking and white water canoeing in Canada. Epic.
I just realized that I will be back at the Puge in less than a month!!! You have no clue how much I am trying to contain my excitement right now to see you all and have a reROOHnification. Ok loooooove to you all!!!
Peace and blessings,
Word,
Annika

new youtube vid, courtesy of my dad :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog

I ♥ B-ham

Hellllo women of the oar!

My summer has been wild and gone by so fast, kinda like summer camp!

I'm up in beautiful Bellingham, WA living and working with my best friend from home, Rachel.  We work 8 hours a day, and 10 on Wednesdays at the Youth Migrant Project in the Skagit Valley, with Mexican migrant children.  Our job consists of mass-assembling lunches and snacks, handing them out, playing games with lots of rowdy kids, making 800 hotdogs once a week, and organizing an entire sub-program to feed 700 kids a week and spending lots of time in the sunshine! And to top it off, the Skagit Valley is a beautiful place to work--vast farmland nestled between the North Cascades and the San Juan Islands.

Bellingham life is, although limited, very fun!  Rachel and I have been doing sunset yoga in the park, lots of crafts in the sun, hiking the beautiful area, and I've been exploring my temporary town and loving it's hippie-granola feel.  I've also learned that Bellingham sunsets are to die for, as the city is set upon a hill facing west... perfect for sunset watching!

Finally, my house is hilarious.  Rachel and I live with a group of sarcastic, fun-loving, and loud lacrosse girls who love to cook, drink, and paint.  And of course, the man of the house is MOOSE.  Moose is Rachel's Holland Lop bunny who is the cutest thing on this planet.  He's sitting in my lap right now!


Hope all is well in every place this is being read!

Yip! Yip! Yip!

Teddi

  

message to be passed on from shelby

shelby left me this video on facebook and it should be added to our lovely collection of quotable videos

WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

IT'S TOO MUCHHHHH

Just a fun pool moment

I went to Palm Springs this past weekend with my best friend Cailynn (you would all love her, we'll have to set up some skype dates for you to meet her) and there was this flamboyantly gay black guy with the best eyebrows ever. Like Mariah-- you would be jealous. They were incredibly tame, shaped, and NOT wild at all. HOKAY SO H'ANYWAYS: There was this Mexican family there blasting what was actually a great music mix with really eclectic and popular selections from Frank Sinatra to Daft Punk to Pitbull... anyways, Michael Jackson came on and Browz, as I like to call him, gets out of his pool lounger and starts to do all of the MJ moves. It was SO funny. Daft Punk came on later and he electro-danced his butt off... in the water-- I felt like I was watching water aerobics.. or synchronized swimming... or an epileptic.. But it was equally as hilarious.

Best moment: it rained during 100 degree weather. BIZARRE. That just ain't right. But it was refreshing =]

Love you all!

update

OK, well here is my update: I am tan!!! woo hoo i love that however irish i may act, i can still get my brown on, except for my poor stomach, it does not get to join in on the fun because of a parks & rec rule. However being tan=hours and hours in the sun teaching swim lessons, selling concessions, and telling people when to "go" down the slide, and being in the sun=NO ENERGY!! that combined with the abnormally super hott portland weather we've been experiencing= i haven't been working out like i've wanted to :( :( :(

so i need inspiration, i need rooh

Lazy aka UPDATES PEOPLE! IT'S WHAT I NEED

so we might be spending the summer making fitness part of our identities and all but seriously. someone update this thing. it's been a week and the last one was from me. good golly i write a lot :P
miss you guys<3

Diving back in

Well this morning i went back to working out. I swear it's like for every day you take off it's like losing 2 hard work out days because it's was NOT fun. It was a course that i've done plenty of times but i had to stop at the top for my mouth and my lungs. which was really sad but i understand that it's gunna come back the more i run
and thanks to Kenzie about the email. I'm not at school now and i hardly ever check that one...i really should have it just forwarded to my normal email.
Well i also start back at work today. And i'm at a new place called Bear Lodge! and i'm working all by my lonesome! :S but i'm sure i'll make it out okay.
Robert comes home tomorrow, for anyone who is interested and i am pretty sure that i'm freaking out. but it's okay because well i have all of you guys.
and it's really really hard because katie (my LC workout counterpart) her best friend from school and rower as well kaylee is coming on monday and i'm jealous that she's actually got someone from her team there. soooo fun. I miss hellish workouts with you guys and having Lindsay's mash-up erg mix keeping my head in the game... or the lesser appreciated mix that katie and I made (mostly katie but i wrote on the cd) that accidently has forever young by bob dylan instead of the new remix of it.
but enough with sad stuff
lets talk about happiness
aka
ECLIPSE WAS AMAZING :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D oh goodness i need to watch it with you guys because honestly there are so many jokes in that movie. I love it it's fantastic and basically yea
alright i'll keep this one short. i hope you guys liked my swollen face. and i'm officially off the vicodin! (i've got extras if someone's willing to pay the right price) just kidding. Doing drugs are bad
:)
i love you guys!
sorry for the lack of puns but i guess i f-OAR-got
that was pathetic and i'm slightly ashamed :)

S:FLSJ JSLFK SF

^^^ THAT IS MY EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!!!!! SD:LFK SDJ:f well i just received marsa's email (check if you haven't seen it yet!) and almost peed my pants. i am SO incredibly excited for the fall :) howverrrr i am also bummed because i (like hannah) am ridin solo because i lack a fitness buddy. i'm sure a lot of us do... it's so hard to go from having a whole team to support you and keep you accountable for your fitness and suffer through intense long hills and fitness tests together, to having basically nobody. this makes me sad. it also makes me lazy!! but so far i've been doing pretty well at keeping on top of myself and working out. mucho swimming (ahhhh), biking (YAYy! i love biking now!) and running (meh) so i can get ready for my triathlons in august, but marsa's email makes me want to go hike mountains and run 12098 miles. i feel like i really need to push myself and come back a super strong, fast, and sexy (duh) coxswain.

i am not good at writing novels (ehem jovia) but apparently i'm really swell at using parentheses (yeppppp). basically what i want to say is:

1. i miss you all very dearly

2. i am just JUICED (IRENE!!) for the fall

3. i miss you...

4. lets all come back incredibly fit and ready for a great season :)

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

ps! what's up with this different coxswain fitness test? although tempting (i mean come on... 2 miles!!) i think that we should be expected to do the same one as the rowers! i may not erg, but that doesn't mean that i can't train for a longer fitness test. needless to say, i will be doing the regular one thank you very much. (even though it will suck...)

pss! in precisely 2 hours and 55 minutes, i will be going to my first rowing class!!!! "Learn to Row for Adults" muahahah i am so pumped its not even funny. It's skulling, but still. I will be on the water! IN A BOAT! ROWING! words cannot describe my excitement

reCREWtment

Hey Buds,

So lately my mom has been nagging me, hah imagine that, I'm sure none of your moms do that ever, but she was concerned that we would have to go back to school early for crew to workout or recrewt or somwthing but I did some research and found out that reCREWtment (i wonder how many times i can write that in my post) starts something like the second week of school. However, after all of my nosing around and shrugging-off my mom's questioning about it I realized that I have already started my reCREWtment process:

As some of ya'll know (and as some of ya'll don't know) I am working at my neighborhood pool teaching swim lessons, a great job because I get to mess around all day and get a one-piece tan line (you will all get to experience my uuuber-white belly and mixed up tan lines first hand in september) also it's great because I get to be active which is great for me (since fitness is a part of my identity). Anyways my friend at the pool, Pauline, just finished her first year at Humbolt and as per usual all I talk about is crew and have recently convinced her to do crew next year there!!! She'll be a novice her sophomore year so we won't actually race her but it'll be fun to have a familiar face at regattas, hopefully she won't be too good so we can beat them next year!!

But also my friend Sahalie who graduated the same year as me from high school but at a different school in portland [Lincoln--(that's a refrence for you erin)] and she worked at the pool last year and we would talk about how we both just got accepted to UPS, however she deferred for a year to travel and is starting her freshman year in the fall, but we were talking about how I converted Pauline to Crew and Sahalie said that she was thinking of doing crew next year at UPS!!

..so as you can see from my characteristically long-winded story, I have already started reCREWting and I can't wait until we get back in the fall and get to do it together on campus!

I can remember going to the first information meeting about crew in Jones103 i think it was, anyways that big auditorium style class and seeing all of the varsity girls sitting in front and laughing and hugging and goofing around and telling jokes and I thought to myself, wow, I want to be one of them and I just can't believe that it will be us in just two short months!

Just can't wait for our reCREWnion (didn't work so well) and reCREWtment and to see ROOH ALL soon!!!

love love love KT

A Post from Eryn!!!!!!

Hello to all of you all the way from Ecuador! I'm back here this summer interning with the organization that I volunteered with last spring for 4 months. It has been great! Most of the kids are still here (besides the ones who graduated of course) and it's great to see them again! Last year I was just at one school but this year since I'm an intern I get to go to all three schools that we work in and meet all the kids.

I dont have my own class this year, I mostly just help out with the kids that are giving their teachers trouble and filling in where needed. A couple weeks ago that meant taking grades 4, 5, 6, and 7. All at once. definitely a challenge but good fun! Last week and this coming week are the graduations at all three schools (chicken head soup at one school last week and sheep blood soup at another one on Tuesday...) and then summer school starts! I've been doing a lot of work getting all the plans ready for summer school and now we're finally wrapping them all up! sort of... mostly...

It's been neat to get to see the whole administrative side of things as well. And live in the GVI house with the other intern and director. Only 2.5 more weeks though, and then back way up north to the AK. It's all gone by so fast!

Sounds like you all are enjoying your summers (for the most part at least...) and getting nice and ripped!
Keep enjoying your summers!
Miss you all!
Eryn

Day 4

swelling is going down
and the drugs are QUITE relaxing
i'm going to go nap
<3

ps. i don't really have the ability to go anywhere so thanks for putting up with my picture updates :)

From Sunny LA

From the title, I think you can guess how the weather is... but don't get me wrong; LA isn't famous for its June Gloom for no reason. I think we've had 3 or 4 days total this month on which the sun actually came out in the morning and stayed beautiful and blue skyed and such. Cuz today it was cloudy when I woke up. Cloudy when I returned from a row. And cloudy when I came back from an Indo-Row class. And now (finally) the sun has come out after I showered from my 2-a-day... day.
Here's what my life has looked like before I found Indo-row and this awkward turtle rowing club:
8-9-10 am: WAKE UPPPP and run if I feel like it.
10 am: food of some sort, sometimes of the breakfast variety.
Noon: look for a movie on tv.
3 pm: Tuesdays and Thursdays Lauren and I go to the gym and we lift weights.. she has a personal trainer. I don't. Waaah. But he did give me THIS! (and page two) <-- click it to see the workout complete with graphics. =]
6 pm: Shower... dinner... more movies...

Sometimes I go to the beach... My runs are TO the beach (2 miles to the beach)... My best friend and I ran ON the beach <--- pretty intense. And we also did a hike/run on this beautiful trail in Temescal Canyon.

It's my birthday on Monday... hello 20, goodbye teenage years! <-- WHAT!
I wish you all could be there.
Love love love you.

p.s. Rowing with the LA Rowing Club this morning was tres tres miserables. Except for the rowing part. I was talking to Jovia and I told her that the being in a boat with guys and girls that weren't Loggers was weird... but the connection I had with the water through my oar was magical. I think I'll ask to re-learn Port side so I can be bi-sweptual. I shall be inviting Mariah to join me as soon as she's done going to Mexico and baby sitting the little brosef.

Again, love love love you all.

day 3

threw up today. stitches are not happy with vomit. this day sucks but i love you all

Well
there is day number 2 wisdom-less :) for everyone to see
<3

WISDOM-LESS!!!!!!

i promise everyone i do actually have friends and don't sit at home just refreshing the page until someone updates....most of the time...but next week i will because....
I'M GETTING MY WISDOM TEETH OUT!!!!!!
not looking forward to that
i get them out tomorrow
pictures will be on facebook don't even worry everyone but it will be nice to just take a week off because i think the longest break from workouts i've had yet this summer is like two days. i love it :P
anyway i thought i'd update on my recent run/goal thing :)
i did the midnight sun run in 57:30 but outside factors kinda impacted my performance. i'm not saying thats my excuse because even if it had been totally ideal weather and everything was going my way i knew 45 minutes was PRETTY optimistic :P
but it was a SUPER smokey night
not great for asthma runners aka me.
also i made a poor life choice and ate about a pound of crab about 2 hours before the run. so 3 miles in i had to make a pit stop to deal with the crab's revenge. alyssa don't read this part: yes i threw it up :S. so that ate up... a solid 3 minutes of time
anyway
so all that combined with 6.2 miles didn't really make for a great race but i mean i ran the whole thing and i took 5 minutes off of my time from last year
anyway yes so week off for wisdom teeth. if you guys are bored ever i'll be online for the next week and i think skyping would be funny while i'm on drugs
lets have our fingers crossed that i become a youtube star
i told my mom to video tape me when i wake up :)
i hope i remember enough to not say anything incriminating.
love you all :D

WAAAAAAHHHH, I can't wait till September!!

So first of all I just want to reiterate what my fb status currently says... Today I found a lock-washer on the sidewalk and I literally almost started crying. Really. I'm an emotional human and I just miss you all sooooo much. I don't have a reliable work out buddy here at all, so other than going to spin with my mom, I'm ridin' solo, which SUCKS ASS. You're all the greatest and I just can't wait over two months to see you fools. I was already emotional because of the lock washer, and then I read a few posts which made me even more sentimental (especially Annika's), and I'm honestly about to lose it. I can't wait for fall when we're finally all back together. Nationals was so great, but it wasn't the same without all of you. I can't wait to start working towards that HUGE AND AMAZZZZZING goal with all of you in September, because I know that making it there next year with all of my fellow 2010 novs would 100% make my life. I'm going to stop now before I start tearing up. I love all of you.
- Hannah "the emotional train wreck" Whisler

hello hello

Someone (love you Lindsay Hammond) posted on my facebook that I hadn't posted anything on here so here goes...

Lets see. The sun has yet to come out in Portland (Katie and I are both a little sad). Although on a side note the strawberries are coming in and they are so fantastic it blows my mind. My dad made a strawberry pie last night (and then homemade whipped cream on top, so necessary) and it was so amazing it blew my mind. I am waiting for summer, tragically, it just is not coming. Every night I do my sun/summer dance so I am hoping that will do the trick and we will get some nice weather at least before the 4th of July.

The last few weeks I have been laying low. After a lengthy job hunt, I found a job at a summer art camp that starts in July and I am pretty thrilled about that (not to mention that it is close to maddies house, which automatically makes it fantastic). In the mean time, I am just doing my own thing. Summer is great because I get to play with a lot of different things and ideas, but I have been doing lots of drawing and painting. Also I have painted a lot of shoes in the last few weeks and thats been super fun.

Its been really amazing being home because I get to spend time with mads. Its really nice to be able to actually see her when we talk or to jump in the car and be there in 15 min. But we are both looking for an escape from Portland soon. If the warm weather ever came the beach or the mountains would be amazing (must get back to that sun dance).

Other then that I try to hit the gym a lot. Its been really hard because I am not getting stronger (and that depresses me, almost as much as not working out with all of you does) but I am working with the doctors (and taking many many vitamins) praying that we can figure out what is wrong with me. Until they do, I am just hitting the cardio and the weights (and then a delightful nap after).

I miss you all so much and you should call or text me if you are ever passing through Portland (or the Portland area) because I would love a mini reunion :)

And/or call/text any time just to catch up.

xoxo

erin

JUST TO CLARIFY

I JUST WANT TO KEEP YOU ALL ENTERTAINED! THATS WHY I TALK SO MUCH AND I WANNA MAKE SURE YOU ALL KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON :D
i'm just kidding.
well here in the land of the midnight sun it's 1:21 and my big day is tomorrow
i'm going to sleep soon
but just wanted to write on here that i'm going for my first real goal i've set out for myself this summer. i'm actually nervous :S
but that's all i'll write on the subject because apparently i run my mouth too much on here... or rather... exercise my fingers to much on here :P
so i'll shorten it up for all of you guys of my past two days of life
yoga
snot
running
SLEEPING
too much sun
president of the united states concert
3-11 concert
walking with dogs
soaking wet
SHOWERED :D
cleaned
old lady at work tried to die (stroke)
lost a hat
found a bag
made 100 dollars
new pink wrist band
found dead moose
and missed my ex-novies and future varsity crew mates :)

it's so crazy how much i miss you all... and i know amateur hour is over for reals but if it meant being with you guys i'd go back to amateur hour... but just one hour because we're so amazing that we can only be amateurs for so long before we start... well being amazing

this has already gotten too long...
i apologize and i wonder if anyone really reads through every word i write
banana
who ever knows.
i did that in a paper once. just wrote banana in the middle because i wanted to see if my teacher read the papers or just skimmed
...
he read them
awkward...
okay
miss and love you guys all so much
<3

Shenanigans

So I'm listening to our Wagon song right now getting all sentimental so I thought I'd finally figure this blog thang out...and write down a few things about crooh that I've missed.
1) Wearing spandex (it's hard pulling off cheetah spots by yourself)
2) Saying all of our youtube pick up lines (like "so beautiful and cute" and "ouch charleyyy") and not having anyone to finish them
3) Listening to "Wake up in the morning..." and T-Swift and raving in the car on the way to the lake
4) Witnessing the sunrise as Mt. Ranier peeks his head through the clouds that look just like cotton candy
5) Sitting in my cox box yelling stuff like "Lean out bitches to your damn riggers to fix the bloody set or help me gawdddd I'll steer us into a buoy."

On that last note, I've been working on being more ferocious. I've tried pulling out my coxswain voice in my bedroom just once and had my brother cautiously peek his head in wondering if I was all right. I assured him I've never been better. So ferocious I even scared myself. SQUEEEEEZE. And that's coming from the girl who just choked up watching Toy Story 3. Yup...in 3D. It was baller.

"So rock me mama like a wagon wheel. Heyyyyyy mama rock me." (interlude)

Anywhoo, bout my summer. I just got back from a 14 hour road trip visiting Ashland, Oregon and the Shakespeare Festival. It was epic. We watched Twelth Night and Pride and Prejudice (even though that's not very Shakespearean ahaha) and toured the antiquey touristy town and felt cute in my skirt. Lemme just say that I'm soo glad men don't wear tight knickerbockers anymore. It's like an open invitation saying "hey look here." You all know where "here" is...it rhymes with "stick." Soooo unattractive.

Another thing I'd like to mention is that making money is a biatttch. But at least I have a job. I work at this billing department where I type numbers into a computer for 8 and a half hours a day. It's grueling. And all the ladies there look like pears. So I come home everyday inspired to work out.
Yesss...on that note: I'm gonna do a triathalon with my momma this summer and hope to join Sir Kenzington for the one in Seattle end of August. I've been bike riding till my pubic bone and ass joined forces and rebelled and I couldn't sit on the pot for at least 9 days without grimacing. Ok maybe a leetle too much info. You all could pray to the heavens that I'll be able to make it through the swimming part. Honestly, all I know is the chicken-airplane-rocket and I have no clue how in hell I'm supposed to master the front stroke and breathe without having a stroke for lack of suitable oxygen.

Well, I should probably wrap things up cuz I don't want to steal the long winded award from Jovia. So I hope you're all doing dandy and I miss each of you something fierce.
"Rock me mama anyway you feel...like a southbound train. Heyyy mama rock me."
Rooh infinity and beyond,
Annika

early morning

well for starters... the swiss beat spain! lets all get DRUNK!
actually i've had enough drinking for now
:P ask katie she's my favorite person to attempt to text. i really hope one time i can remember to come and update on here :P
but in all seriousness i haven't actually drank more than two times.

gaelyn i'm so glad you understand my frustration.
yesterday i ended up having to deal with my first really upset customer. he was mad that his bags weren't delivered right to his room and was like
well i'm coming down.
i was so scared i wanted to hide in the back room
and i did
and one of my coworkers dealt with him but it wasn't actually that bad
he just complained a lot.

Alyssa i really wanna see this shed. i think you and your dad working together would be an amazing sight.

so i thought i had my first two days off. turns out i was actually scheduled to work and it's this weird deal but now i have to work until next monday and Tuesday... because my real days off were suppose to be on thursday and friday.
but anyway...

i spent the last two days babysitting two girls and made 100 bucks. not too shabby. we had a dance party. i taught them the cupid shuffle and it made me think of wira warm ups
and then i showed them the party in the USA dance. it was great but i missed you guys so much :P and shelby knows that they also tried to teach me the Ho-down throw down. boy do those girls love miley cyrus.
i also made them scavenger hunts. to anyone babysitting that's a great way to keep the children busy and minimal acticivty for you :) i just sat and timed them. it was great.

other than work work and more work. i find time for running, for stairs, and for erging! whoooooow...
this morning was the first pillar of rowing. i don't think it's as much as stadium but it's about 1000 steps and it's good and hard. my legs are still shaky and i did them at 6 this morning. katie and i work opposite shifts so i have to do it with her before work since i don't get off till around 11.

still training for midnight sun run. it's on 19th. a big goal for me and i'm actually starting to get excited and nervous! haven't felt that way since wiras!

MOODY IS FREAKING NOVICE COACH! YES YES YES IKNEW IT I I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!!!!!! HAHAHAH oh that's so great. perfection thy name is moody

i love alyssa's facebook status about a yogurt cottage cheese parfe.
everyone should go see shrek four. i pissed my pants laughing. i loved it. it was great.
i'm gunna stay in bed till i have to get up shower and go talk to grump old people who smell like feet
OH and i agree with gaelyn. while i don't cox boats. i do cox busses. i have to organize how to fit like 5ish giant holland america busses in front of a small hotel. it's hell...
and taht's it
again
from the farthest north ups rower!
ps. i now have discounts on tours
so if anyone is coming up
get in touch!!!!
<3

Quick Note

I hope everyone got the email from Rachael with the link to the workout page (https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvG4Zcsm0opkdHNwUzF1anp1YkxMb1lOcWZTV08yT0E&hl=en#gid=1) where we can all go in and track our workout progress (and everyone else's) it's great used in conjunction with this website that my mom showed me where you can go back and retrace your steps electronically from the run/bike you just went on and it will calculate the distance and elevation change too if you want to get fancy. Its called mapmyrun.com (http://www.mapmyrun.com/create_new)

Enjoy!

PS I don't know about you but I find myself singing the original song by Moody and Becca "Crew Sister" to myself while I run. Has anyone gotten ahold of the video of it? cough*lindsay*cough because I think everyone should experience it.

PPS Moody as novice women's coach 2010?!?!?!?! A WOO WOO

32 days down

God, how I miss everyone. I forgot about Lindsay creating a little blog for us and I’m happy I was goofing off with my email because I found it. Life in Mass is dull. We have no mountain. We have no lake. We have no bald eagles. But we do have a river and until last week it was fully buoyed for the UMass Lowell crew team’s weekend regattas. I watched them once and realized that rowing is not something I can watch. I wanted to put on my trou and my tank and get out there. A bit more than two months and I’ll be able to. I never though I’d want vacation to end so badly.

In workout news I joined a gym and am doing that 5 days a week with a friend of mine. Let me tell you working out with a non-crewer is not easy. I don’t know why but when you tell a normal person that pain is just a part of the workout and that even though your brain tells you to stop you tell it to shut up and keep going they just stare at you. I miss the encouragement and the feeling of knowing that the person beside me knows exactly what I’m going through. Our little family has grown on me. I can only imagine what year two is going to bring. Varsity, whoa.

Anyway, I’ve been staying busy. My dad is currently building a shed which means I’m trying to keep him from injuring himself with a power tool every weekend. When it’s done I’ll put up a picture so you guys can see my carpentry skill or lack of it. And I got a new puppy. His name is Rudy, he is 2 and ½ pounds and he’s a min-pin. I’ll get a video of him up soon. But that’s my exciting life without rowing. Honestly I have no idea what I spent my summers doing now that I workout. I imagine I just watched a whole lot of daytime talk shows.

Running With Bear Spray

It is official. I am living in the most densely populated bear area in the united states. Alaskans eat your heart out. My manager told me that Many Glacier was the place so it must be true. Although my manager also told me to drop out of school so I don't know whether I should REALLY trust him.

COXSWAINS: I have no Idea how you can do it so consistently. Docking a boat is, no joke, the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I've been close to tears it is so frustrating.

Luckily I am surrounded by mountains, beauty, bears, and a great crew of boat captains. Seven of us are living in a house together. (sound familiar anyone?...). Yesterday night I watched a mama moose and her calf for what seemed like forever. they're amazing. I saw two grizzly cubs in our driveway. I was way to scared to stick around for their mama. But the area is great! We take the tour boat across the lake as our commute every morning.

Jovia, I can sort of commiserate with you. Tourists can be bitches, although I have dealt with the annoying ones by making fun of them. We've started a stupid question log. Some old men think they are being super funny when they say, "What? A WOMAN driving the boat?"

I have a new address for a post office that is a lot closer to Many Glacier, just in case the postcards are coming... *wink wink* You can send it to my PO in kila too it will just take longer to get to me. The new one is PO Box 689 Babb, MT 98411

Routines, etc.

Lovelies!

Well I'm sitting in a car next to Ron Tom's house, loading the season premier of True Blood on my computer before I return to my internet-less house, and thought of no better way I could spent these stationary minutes.

A little life update for you all:

I am officially moved into my house for the next 12 months, which is on Cedar between 9th and 10th. I expect you all to frequent it next year. Unpacking and buying things was a bit of a struggle at first (I spent 4 hours at Ikea with Jill and my bestie/housemate, Eleni), but the house is pretty much intact now, so that's a big load off in terms of stress, and I really like my room and the rest of the common areas.

I'm heading into the fourth week of my job as an admissions associate (with Emma!), and I've started to interview prospective students on my own. I'm really enjoying everything about my job, but getting used to a 9-to-5 is a bit hard. The day seems much shorter than I'm used to.

Aside from all that, my 21st (!) birthday is next week, and Hannah Whisler is coming to visit! So that's exciting. Then over 4th of July I'm heading to Chicago with my parents to visit my best friend from high school and drink beers at some Cubs games. Um... That's about it for now. My life is pretty boring and adult currently, but I'm enjoying everything, so I suppose that's what counts.

I just got back from game night at the crew house and it made me miss you all a ton. Hope everything is going well! Lovelove!

Well... I just got home from the gym where I erged a 10k, so I thought it was only right for me to come write you all a little message. Allow me to now fill you in on my crew and non-crew related recent life activities, because I'm sure you're all just dying to know about my FASCINATING life. (Disclaimer: it's not all that fascinating. But here goes...)

CREW/FITNESS RELATED ITEMS

- As I already told you, I just erged a 10k. This was my first summer erg. I watched Man vs. Food and listened to the techno playing on the gym speakers while I did it. Not all that exciting.

- I have been spinning my life away. I have a membership at the local aquatic center where there are the two pools and also a spin room with lots of bikes and a little weight room. I've been taking like 4 classes a week... I'm obsessed.

- I sometimes swim after I spin, but swimming bores me so I usually spend about an equal amount of time in the lap pool and the hot tub.

- I also have been running, but I'm already bored with the river walk (just what it sounds like... a paved path that runs all along the river in Astoria. Very beautiful but also flat, straight, and with only one route option).

- Yesterday I discovered that my mom had dvr'd the Big Ten Womens Rowing Championships. I watched that, got sentimental, and lost it when the novice 8 that won pulled a 6:45 (which is about what William's top 8 pulled at nationals. jesusfuckingchrist).

IN OTHER NON-CREW/FITNESS RELATED NEWS

- I am waitressing at the same place that I have worked since 10th grade.

- I broke up with my boyfriend which was hard but the correct life decision for me :)

- My Danish exchange student is coming to visit for a month in July! Then we're going to LA for a week to visit Mariah (Lindsay, I would also be interested in see you PLEASE) for a week at the end of July yaaaaay.

- On any given day I generally get coffee, exercise, lay around and watch The Hills, work, and maybe spend time with one of my 3 friends who currently reside in Astoria. Summer '10 is clearly just out of control here in Astoria.

I miss you all sososo much and I'm really glad that there are only two months left in my summer.

LOOOOOOOOOOVE HANNAH =)

whew...

well some of us are longwinded cough*jovia*cough

i mean after reading that i just don't know what to come up with about how my life is interesting...

let's see here

-I just got back from Eugene, OR visiting my other friends at U of O

-my parents are out of town now, a woo woo

-the sun came out for pretty much the first time in Oregon since god knows when, just in time for the Rose Festival Parade :)

-I've just been biking, running with my mom (ew), adventuring, bonfiring, & bugging my brother since I've been home and hopefully continue to do so for the rest of the summer! (besides working at the pool, which won't be too bad)

in other news, if you haven't yet seen it get jovs to send you a picture of her uniform! HA

what is new in my life

well yes pleanty of things have been occuring since the last time i was in contact here
the biggest one being

I AM EMPLOYED

I am a guest service hostess for Holland America/ Princess cruises.
Basically... I talk to about 200 old people who are grumpy because things have gone wrong with their cruises and or vacations and or whatever the hell they're doing. Last night i was suppose to work the 1-10 shift, i did not leave until 1130 because 3 busses full of old people were all pissed off because they had a flight at 6 in the morning, and the only shuttle available to them was one at 4 in the morning. "we paid top dollar and we shouldn't have to wake up at 4 in the morning on our vacation" I DIDN'T BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS?!?!?! CALL THE FREAKING AIRPORT!!!!!! what do you think i can do?? crazy... bitches be crazy.....
anyway the job is about an 8 hour shift and i have 2 days off ever week so I'm full time baby. the job gets pretty wild whenever people come in from tours or are leaving to go on tours but that's only for a few hours. the rest of the time is pretty chill. and the restaurant in the hotel i work in is AMAZING and since i work for the hotel i get 50% off the cost of stuff. i got a like delicious sandwich and stake fries for 6 bucks

what else?
well on a more romantic note. I am 18 days away from Robert coming home from Paraguay and i just emailed my boss about making sure i have the afternoon off so i can see him. I'm kinda really excited. do not worry ladies i'll be sure to get pictures. I'm really excited for you guys to meet him. it's been weird not having him around since he's such a big part of my life, and now it's weird again not having you guys here since you guys are a huge chunk of my life. Its gunna be amazing when those two parts of my world combine. I'm really excited.
oh but this is top secret. lets not tell marsa my boyfriend goes to western washington... lo siento guys i didn't pick his school.

what else??
OH! another thing on my goal list is coming up. In about 2 weeks... (well on the 19th) is the midnight sun run. I've been running 3-4 times a week and i've changed my goal. I originally wanted to do a 6k in under 1 hour. I have already done that now just in training. I wanna do it in 45-48 minutes. I'm not sure if i'll get that but i mean, even thought its slightly out of reach that just means I'm gunna work harder to go and get it.

what else again???
once more i apologize. some drunk texts were sent about a week ago. that night was a good one. Paige (my best friend) told me it would be an awesome idea to try her self tanner. it's a spray and believe me it works. but future note. do even coats and not smiley faces and random streaks. because it lasts. my leg is still awkwardly streaked with tan and orange lines.

WHAT ELSE AGAIN AGAIN!!!!!!
I MET TONI'S BOYFRIEND ALLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D she and him drove up and camped out at chena lakes where there was a bear around and the night before had destroyed a tent. that's how alaskans do! but we met up and she met my other best friend kelsey andresen (the really tall blond one who looks like mandy) and then we went hand had the best ice cream in alaska (HOT LICKS) and we had ourselves a little trip to go lift at the gym. it was fun :D
guys allen is so cool. he would get along with us so well.
he didn't even mind when i almost got us all killed in a car crash twice. ask toni if you don't believe me. okay well one car crash and then i yelled "WOMAN DRIVER" at some lady driving by and she heard me and looked back at me and i thought she was gunna come like curb stomp me. it was a good experience. maybe it's for the best i don't have a car in tacoma...

one more!
watching the world cup right now! england and usa. I'm thinking england is going to take it (they're up by one right now and they scored in the first like 3 ish minutes :S ) but it won't stop me from praying.
i highly recommend watching it in a large setting. I watched last years championship match at a soccer camp. it was the most rowdy thing i've ever seen or been apart of. Soccer Hooligans. that's a career i could really get into :)
ahhh well the usa keeper is down.
i love watching this because it always puts EVERYTHING into slow-mo. there was just a clip of like England's like 17th coach nodding and clapping his hands... that's very important for understand what's going on in this game. :P
alright my lovely ladies.
the smoke has died down
the sun has hidden behind clouds and it will be back
i got a new phone
and i'm starving
this is for you lindsay :D
<3 you guys all so much!

Start it off with a Pun

Inspired by Jovia: ROOHnited we stand.. or, uh, erg.
Yeyuhh. My friend texted me last night for ideas for a title for his proposed "morning breakfast music show"... I sent him a list.. here are some favorites: Awake 'n' Bake'n (or Bacon), Rock n Breakfast Rolls, and Jamm'n Toast... bahahah. I crack myself up..

So far, I've slept in til 8 am.. gone on a hike, ran, biked, and elliptical'd, ab'd, walked on the beach for 1.5 hours with my mom and her 2 friends, and I'm headed to Yoga at 10 am. I recommend Yoga for anyone looking for something to supplement their aerobic workouts.. You really get a good stretch in and you build strength with your own body weight... can you say pushups and squats, here we come?! =]

On another note... I was suddenly hit with the problem facing many of us college returnees while at home for the summer: WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO? We can't find a group of friends to have a dance party with as easily as at the Puge, and well, let's face it... WE HAVE NO MONEY. If you've been to LA, you may have noticed... you need two things: Money and, if under 21, a fake ID. My best friend Cailynn and I decided long ago we would forego the sketch IDs and just wait it out. With one year to go, we are struggling. No good under 21 night scene exists. In fact, it's just plain hard to do ANYthing we haven't already done the last 14 summers that we've known each other...

SO I had an idea. You all know I love writing; I have a self-professed "way with words."

I am going to "Drink my way through LA."
That's right. I'm going to record my experiences of being under 21 and going out for drinks... of the coffee and tea variety, that is. There are so many amazing coffee shops around, and I always go and meet strangers and connect with them via very interesting conversations. So that's what my plan is for this summer... I want to visit a few coffee shops a week and eventually turn it into a book, or a guide, or SOMEthing.
I'll try to keep you posted as I Drink my way through a potentially monotonous summer of runs, hikes, and ergs. =]

Love love love you all.
P.S. Gaelyn, my mom and dad were in Seattle (coming home from their Alaskan cruise [btw they loved Alaska!]) and they went to various components of FolkLife!!! hahah.
P.P.S. My mom looks for boyfriends for me (as a joke) and we've given them all numbers (none of which we keep track of) that correspond with the numerical order in which we meet them and the label "prom date," e.g. she met Prom Date # 73 on a tour in Alaska. He had a boyfriend. My dad overheard.
Oh well!
=]

PEACE AND BLESSINGS.
btw... this is great. he's a champ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

I MISS THE ERG ROOM

Today I attempted to do my first 2k at home by myself and without anyone pushing me but me. WORST IDEA EVER.

I know 'self motivation' and all that but seriously. I felt like today everything was stacking up against me

first i had planned to do it at like 8 in the morning...

my phone dies and my alarm doesn't go off... i guess that's what i get for not setting 5 alarms...sorry erika :P

So i wake up at 11 go eat and get ready to go. i get to the gym go into the gym... forget my wallet. drive back home. get my wallet. drive back to the gym, get into the gym

i'm warming up on the erg and my ipod dies.

no music = not a happy erg-er

I almost decided to just give up go for a run and try this again later

but then i say suck it up and just do it

and i start, it's going alright

and then it happens right around the first 500 meters down

a very large man sits down on the erg next to me and attempts to erg and fails miserably

he is very sweaty

very smelly

and very very very grunt-a-licious

no exaggeration at about second 14 this is what he looked like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgs8qQkE_FE

that was the last straw. my mind was gone. my split dropped like 10 seconds and i just like had to stop. it was too much.

now i'm frustrated with myself while i sit here watching extreme home make over (its on in the puget sound area!) because i wish i hadn't let it get to me. But i'm slowly seeing how nice having a room where we could go and erg and not be distracted was. my ergs are in like the section with treadmills and other like work out equipment and facing the basketball courts, and it's so easy to look around and find something else to distract me.

another weird thing is that I've never done a 2k without either a coxswain or someone erging right next to me.

that moment when i stopped erging i realized

1 how much i miss you guys

2 how much having everyone there with me makes me better

3 what the team mentality really means for me

It's hard for me to push myself just for me

but if it's for you guys, in the boat, in a race or if its for us, on the ergs, in the erg room, I can push it so much harder. So I know where i need to work now. My mental toughness and being able to push for me.

and also coxswains. I don't know if annika is involved in this but i know kenzie reads occasionally, you guys really do do a lot for me when i'm erging. If you ever think that you're not helping eject that thought from your head because you telling me to push harder is always that little something extra that helps me

i love you guys and miss you all so much

and don't worry

i'm not letting it get the best of me because i'm going to bed early and i'm going to go try my 2k again later this week. I'm gunna get it and i'm gunna kill it

ps. FIRST POST OF JUNE :D dibs

done

okay

bye :P

I FIGURED IT OUT!

Hullo ladies!

well, I am sitting here in limbo. between the time when I eat a big bowl of cereal and motivate myself to go run, so what better thing to do than write to you!

Let's see. Montana. It is nice being home. It really is. I got off the train and my parents kidnapped me to go bike riding in Glacier Park. I there named my bicycle Oberlin after one of the peaks in the park. A couple days later I went kayaking with two of my best friends from home and we played in the sand of this place on Flathead Lake that everyone calls Africa. Let me tell you, kayaks are SLOOOWW! Now, my parents are in Boston at my brother's graduation and visiting family (I decided to stay behind because I wanted to be home) but already I am tired of having the house to myself. The dishes are piled up and our hot water heater broke. Damn.

Exercise (since everyone is commenting on it): I've been running almost daily, and when I don't a do this african dance aerobics video. I don't have a gym membership this summer so lifting is not existent. nor is erging. Am I a bad person? I start my Glacier Park boat captaincy June 2nd, I hope to run there as well as go on backpacking trips for my fitness lifestyle.

I am driving to Seattle on Thursday for a free music festival called FOLKLIFE!!! I'm so excited and will be thinking of our lovely ladies at nationals all the time! If you were still in Tacoma I would come visit. Although there are enough of you still there (Kayla, Irene) that I may drop by anyway well, I'm gonna get started on this run/core stuff. Guess that means I should put on a bra. ha ha

Big HUg! -- G

Well since everyone else is doing it

it's 10 pm

i'm sitting on my couch

in a towel

watching tv

and i'm pretty sure my legs might just fall off :) in a good way

to lindsay and katie and possibly anyone else. i'm sorry for the text you received saturday night. I was drinking some smoothies and things just got crazy :D but don't worry everyone if you didn't get one last time i'm sure you all shall be receiving drunk texts at some point this summer.

But i didn't let that stop me! because today god what did i do???

three hour work out in the gym. that was awful, but so very rewarding!

erged for the first time this summer (can't say i missed it that much, but there will be far more to come) I have never appreciated how very nice the ergs we have at school are. I think the ones I am using have been around since the dawn of time, and a brontosaurs made the foot straps lose. anyway it wasn't a big erg so me and katie ( my friend since kindergarden and a rower at Lewis&Clark) went on a 6 mile run with one of the best runners from my high school Werner. which was a huge thing for me personally.

and then... well that just wasn't' enough so how about some lifting to finish us off

i think it was an attempted suicide but totally worth it and hey I made it out of the pain cave :)

that is pretty much what my summer has consisted of and what they will consist of until I re-ROOH-nited with all of you

It has not been the same since we have been gone

I mean I'm use to working out with Katie from soccer stuff, but crew work outs... like you guys (espeically coxswains) know what works with me and what doesn't

and between everyone reading our blogs my friend kaite isn't a great coxswain :P

anyway I'm doing my best to stay motivated for not only me but for you guys

and let me be the first tos ay that I AM SO EXCITED FOR EVERYONE GOING TO NATIONALS! AND I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS ON FUCKING TELEVISION!!!!!! HOW INSANELY COOL IS THAT...

maybe it's just because i'm from alaska and getting on tv is a HUGE deal... but i am like SOOOOOOOO EXCITED TO SEE SOMEONE I KNOW ON TV AND FOR YOU GUYS TO KICK SOME SERIOUS ASS!!!!!!

OHHHHH GOD NOW I'M REALLY PUMPED AND MY HEART IS ALL FAST AND STUFF

PEACE AND BLESSINS

AND OF COURSE

ROOH

--Jovia

Hi!!!!

Hi guys! I miss you all and I am so happy that Lindsay has brilliantly created this blog! It is nice to hear what you are up to-- Irene, I am impressed with your studly backpacking adventures, and Toni, Lindsay, Kayla, Jovia, etc. I am impressed with your goals/bike rides/fitness. Reading about what you have to say is keepin' me motivated throughout my own workouts.

It has been beautiful here in California. I have just been enjoying the sun/mexican food/beach since I have been home while preparing to leave to work at a camp on June 1st. I have surfed twice since I've been home, and I've gone on several beach runs. I have also gone to this hilarious dance class that a local yoga studio offers. It's called "Nia" and it integrates a ton of dance styles. Initially, I thought that I was showing up for a yoga class, but I was very surprised when a flamboyant instructor with his head-mike walked in and ordered us to start doing "shimmies." Although my friends and I have had a difficult time controlling our laughter ( we are easily the youngest people in the class), it has actually been a nice,fun supplement to my tougher workouts. I can't wait to show you guys some of my new moves-- all you have to do is ask ;).

Anyways, I got a camera today so I should be able to post some pics from the camp where I will be working at soon. I'll be there all summer, but I have about four days off between each week-long session consecutively throughout the summer so I have planned some trips. I hope to stay with Lindsey in Santa Monica for a weekend, and I'll also be going on a four-day backpacking trip with my best friend, her dad, and my dad in mammoth in August. My friend is getting married in June (soooo exciting) so I'm pumped for that, and I'll also be taking a trip up to San Francisco between sessions.

That was a lot of writing--sorry. Love you and keep me updated!

-Allie Cole!

ROOH without yOOH...

is not quite rooh at all :(

Despite the fact that Katie, Lindsay, and I (Kenzie) really miss you all, we're trying to have a good time (and succeeding for the most part). This is our schedule:

5:15am - Wake up in the morning feeling like p-diddy

5:30 - Brush our teeth with a bottle of jack

5:40 - Fieldhouse

6 - Practice

9 - Return

9:30 - Eat

movies, online television, facebook stalk

12 - Eat

movies, online television, facebook stalk

12 - Eat

6 - Eat

movies, online television, facebook stalk

12 - Eat

9pm - Sleepy time, she comes

REPEAT!

Obviously, it's a very riveting schedule/life we've got going on (that would be much better with you guys!). Anywho, we've got one more practice tomorrow and then we're shipping out to sacramento wednesday morning!

For those of you haven't heard, Katie and Hannah are officially racing in a pair! They (especially Katie) are scared shitless, despite Marsa describing the race as "fun." They have one more practice at home (hopefully- if Becky can come...) and they're hoping to get up to full slide tomorrow! Because a half slide "spare pair" race wouldn't necessarily be "fun" (hahahahhaha). Needless to say, it should be interesting :)

I've been riding in the launch for the most part, but I did get to cox the cran beaut and the rooh!! I'm learning a lot in the launch, but i'm still not a fan of the cold and rain (obviously...). Both Ashley and I are going to get cox evals soon, and depending on the results one of us will be chosen to be the alternate and the other will go as a team manager. I'll keep you posted :) Other than that, it's just really funny to hear marsa's "launch talk" as she calls it, because she swears a lot and its just hilarious. I MISS YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!

LINDSAY HERE, so it's been quite a whirlwind, emotionally and... the other kind? Haha. Emotional challenges: being away from everyone... completely! Not just for practice like it was before... It's quite hard. But, having the other ex-novies here has been great. Mariah and I are in the Rooh, she's 7-seat and I'm 2-seat (we're each other's opposite!). Kenzie did a great job coxing the Cran Beaut when I was in it, and the Rooh as well. Yeah, that's right, I rowed in the CB for a few practices.. we were doing mixed boats so everyone got to feel what it was like; and it was EPIC. I loved it. But I love the Rooh, it's a really great boat and we all work really well together. It's been amazing.

I feel so stir crazy! Marsa doesn't want us to do any extraneous workouts, so we're gonna go walk around the mall in a bit. Get FroYo and shtuff. Yeah, be jealous. But I get to go home Saturday night. That's another crazy thing... We'll be done done with the season THIS Saturday. I know you all must be feeling it already... that weird vacancy.. the void! I'm def not looking forward to Sunday... it's gonna be WEIRD. Roohly Weird. BUT, as said earlier, one last practice tomorrow! and then SACRAMENTO BOUND! (In bball we used to call it Mento, hah!) So yeah.. California, here we comeeeee. Apparently it'll be live on NCAA.com (somewhere...)

LOVE YOU ALL.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Kenzie just told me it'll be on TV: June 19! "at like 4 pm" BE THERE.

Here's Katie:

Well.... I do not have Lindsay's way with words, but I thought I'd chime in give my 2¢. But to sum it all up Kenzie's been launchin' it up, Lindsay's been Rooh'n it up, and I've been ergin' it up. Oo ya. Erika always talked about how there is just a different feeling on Varsity- the bubbles, the boat run and such (which is true, I was in the Rooh one day) but there is a difference erging on Varsity too. Eh. But it's been good. It's cool to have new and interesting workouts! (Sense the excitement)

Anyhoo, text me on Thursday sometime and I will compile a text list to send live updates from Nat's! (Kenzie will have to take over for my race)

Well the world of wonders we call the Tacoma Mall is calling to us. A Woo Woo!

Miss You Loads,

Kalinzatie

C'Bperf

<--Lindsay saying something equivalent to Perf

Adventures!

Hi Lovelies!

It seems so long ago that we were all together, and I miss you all! It's so weird that it was just a few weeks ago that we were in California, and things already seem really different (not necessarily in a bad or good way, just a different way).

Anywho. I just got back from my four day backpacking trip for Outdoor Leadership Experience (a.k.a. making fitness a part of my identity), and I had a total blast. We hiked on the gorgeous coast off of the Olympic National Park, navigating tide crossings, climbing over huge rocks, and scurrying up ladders on the sides of cliffs. I shared sleeping bags with Gerad and some other lovely people, cooked chocolate chip pancakes in the rain, and ended up getting evaluated as a primary leader (the highest rating) for PSO and Passages trips next year. This means that I will be hounding you all to come on my trips next year!!!

I'm squatting in one of the nationals training houses with Hannah, Mariah, and Kenzie currently until my lease starts in June, and tomorrow I start working full time at Admissions, so my summer schedule will begin in earnest next week, when I move into my house. For now, I sort of feel like I'm in limbo, and I've had very little time for anything personal (before OLE I had a three day Wilderness First Aid course that took up a ton of time), but I'm ready to start outlining goals and getting into a routine for the summer, so here are my goals:

1) Complete a sprint triathlon (hopefully in August with Kenzie!)
2) Do something active every day (even if it's just a quick bike ride or walk down to the water)
3) Run, erg, or do something equally physically demanding five days a week
4) Cook a lot, and cook healthy
5) Go on an outdoors trip every 2-3 weeks

Well, I love and miss you all and hoep that you're all having wonderful starts to your summers!

Rooh -ooh -ooh

So, Alaska is great. I love being home. I've been busy biking with my dad quite a bit, and yesterday i went to Sportsmans Warehouse and bought myself (with my mother's money) a pair of really really nice Asics for my birthday present. They are so plush. I think i'm going to test them out today on a little yog down to the highway and back (about 6 miles).

My boyfriend Allan is coming to visit tomorrow, and i'm really stoked for that. While he's up here I going to take him hiking the Butte, Hatchers, and maybe hike into Denali too. And we might try biking if he's up to it. He'll be here for a week and then it's back to job-hunting.

My family is moving at the end of June, we went and saw the house last night. It's got the same number of bedrooms as my house, but mine is quite a bit smaller, especially since my sister Katie and i will be sharing.

Goals for the Summer:
1. Bike up to Jovia/Fairbanks. It's about 300 miles, so i'm thinking in 3 days i can get there with my dad.
2. Just bike a lot in general.
3. Use my new shoes to go running at least once a week.
4. No mega-feasting. (I'm doing great so far)
5. Do some lifting at the gym and keep up with my core.
6. Blog all the time!
7. Unfortunately i won't have access to an erg, but i'm not going to let that stop me from making fitness a part of my identity.

So, the moral of this story is. I'm staying in shape, missing you all, and also if any of you want to drive/fly up to visit I am totally in. :D <3 threetard

so far so good

I am sitting in my room listening to my housemates sing/play awesome music w/one guitar. Its making me miss the team aspect so much... phooo

I have been working RIDICULOUS amounts. I am almost catered out. I erged yesterday and it was really wierd being in the erg room by myself... besides that one erg experience I have ran and biked a lot. It is wierd balancing just work and excercise w/o any sort of homework aspect...

But yeah, I dont really have much to say, just thought about everyone and needed to say hi. <3

How's everyone doing?

Goals?!

How did I miss those cookies from your dad, Jov?! DANG. I'm a little PB and Jel... hahaha. Oh well! =P

SO, my goals for the summer are vague right now, but I think when I get home they will be more concrete:
1) Run the Santa Monica Stairs once a week (they're these huge stairs that athletes and crazy people run to get/stay in shape)
2) Backpack with my Dad, maybe Half Dome in Yosemite?
3) Surf once a week
4) Work. (Get money, get paid)
5) Bike the whole Santa Monica Bike Path (to Torrance? 44 miles round trip? maybe?)
6) Sand runs
7) Ergggggggggggg
8) Blog. <3

p.s. training here at school is going really well! =]

GOALS!!!!!

I read somewhere that writing down your goals makes you like a whole lot more likely to accomplish them so I thought that maybe we should take this opportunity to say them here and then if others see what we want, then everyone can help motivate and blah blah blah :D

My goals for this summer are:

Complete a triathlon on my own

Midnight sun run (it's this big run, a 6K, every year in my town from 10 pm till 1 am) in under an hour

run chena ridge (it's the ridge I live on, basically a big up hill and gradual down hill over about 14 miles)

and of course the elusive consistent sub 2 min 2k :)

Anyway I really hope everyones finals are survivable. I managed to crawl through my math final, and now I'm one chem test away from a 3 hour flight to Alaska. If anyone is going my way before Mariah's amazing 2011 Alaska Expedition, just let me know because I will HOOK YOU UP.

Alright, I shall see everyone before I leave. Thats another goal plus my dad just sent cookies if anyone is starving just shoot me a text :)

More youtube moments!

EVEN MORE!!!


Crying sorority Girl- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sd-j0rKeKw
AVATAR MAKE-UP TUTORIAL (FOUND IT AGAIN!!!!)- http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/12/avatar-makeup-tutorial-1605739
"What's black and white and black and white and black and white and..." -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7GvstxiH-M
"Stay on yo side!" (Marsa quotes this) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkU2ch0sRI 
News reporter goes ghetto... in 3 seconds- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUS6nKpddec
"O-o-o-o-o-o-o-u-u-u-chhhhh" (Auto-tuned OUCH  Charlie!!)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuYDSa4BRaw

Youtube List! Spring 2010

VITALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
As we all know as novices, Youtube has been a very influential presence when it comes to our team’s structure and tone. Therefore, I thought it might be a good idea to make a compilation of our most loved and quoted videos, and maybe this can be an “AH HA!” moment for coach too. ;] I’m sure she’s felt at least a little out of the loop this season as she watched our mimicking antics. So here they are and I hope they brighten your day! Erika: The quotes in bold are the ones that you definitely can’t miss out on. The rest are worth the time, but not as memorable.

1. “I like turtles” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

2. “You’re tearing me apart Lisa!” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc

3. “Ouch Charlie! That really hurt.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

4. “Is this real life?” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs

5. “I feel like a unicorn took me on a ride...” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS3Olh9DnaE

6. “Not my chair not my problem.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCV2L0c6K0

7. “I hate you, I hate you...” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHOL1PcPR8

8. “But if he’s been murdered by crystal meth tweakers…” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdVHxkv4UDA

9. “Have you heard of that cartoon the Angry Beavers? They’re bringing it back but their calling it the View.” -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fg-dQxQOEs&feature=channel

10. “OH MY GOOOOOOOD” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4

11. “And I just love moisture.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrgVV49345o&feature=related

12. “He kicked him in the penith.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyHQlnMvWg

13. “Buh-lud.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVDGu82FeQ&feature=related

14. “I said, I’m gonna kick his ask.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-1mla0LeU&NR=1

15. Slug sex. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKPBCXdR6yo

16. “Welcome to King Burger, where we can do it your way, but don’t get crazy.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkdcYlOn5M

Such a good plan Lindsay!

Well.... It's been about 24 hours since we last met as a team to say goodbye forever to Erika (hopefully not) and it hasn't really hit me yet that it's really over. All I can think of is next August/September when we are all reunited and how ecstatic it's going to be. I am already ready for those running hugs and screams we're all going to experience.

But! before I even think about getting into that magic realm we love where tears run freely (and a couple of puns thrown in here and there) I want to start with a big shout out to Lindsay, our team Mom and fearless leader. This is a fantastic idea and I hope it will keep us in contact and inspired to "keep fitness as part of our identity" (and augment facebook) over the summer. So THANK YOU Lindsay for being a role model for us and thank you everyone for investing so much in this team!

About this blog...

I think I might go into withdrawals if I don't have some form of mass communication and mass updates about what each of you incredible girls is doing this summer. People always say they'll keep in touch, and from experience, it takes effort from both sides; Ports and Starboards, power up. We're gonna keep in touch.
Update me, us, [the world?] on your antics, your emotions, your plans, your pitfalls, your triumphs, your pains, your pets, your siblings, your parental units, and your WORKOUTS! I want to know everything.

Post photos, post youtube videos (please!), and post quotes and wise shit you think of. Puns welcome, you know me.

Peace, Love, Rooh.

--Lindsay "The Bulldog" Hammond
(ask Katelyn Stearns about this one)!