Design + Crew = my life, Spring 2010

 I love looking at photos of our races and the photographer at Knecht Cup two weeks ago took individual shots of the rowers.  Of course I look at each image like a designer, taking in the angles, contrast and what not. But it's really interesting to see the emotions caught in each image because I know how it feels to be rowing up to the start or in the sprint of a race, and I wonder whether the photographers know that they are capturing much more than just a race.  The thoughts that go through a rowers head in a race are either bazerk and rampaging, or the rower is basically blacked out; the coxswain does all the thinking for you and you just have to think about pushing and the pain.

We're in our last 2 weeks of the season and as much as I can't wait to be able to sleep in, stay out, calm down, etc., I know I'm going to miss being on the water so much.