Last week I traveled out to California and Washington for the weddings of two of my very good friends - Brian Washburn '01 and Kate Wetmore '02. Brian and I rowed in the
Silver Goblets and Nickalls Challenge Cup in 2000 and in the Temple Challenge Cup in 2001 and it was fantastic to see he and his
wife Beth so incredibly happy together. Many of Brian's high school and college teammates came to celebrate with him and it really struck me how the bonds in rowing can be so powerful. That was even more evident the following Friday when Kate married Jon Gillespie and had a huge turnout of the Yale Women's Crew to support her. That college rowing experience can be powerful is sometimes lost when you're in the midst of it as either a high school recruit or current college athlete - I hope we're able to enjoy both the current and post-college rowing time with each other as much as possible.
Played squash yesterday and lost 9-5, 9-7, 7-9, 9-4, 2-9 (we played five games regardless of who was first to three). Ate at around 10:00 and then played at 4:30 PM. Crushed! Not only was I hungry when we started but because I started losing I couldn't really control my emotions or focus on playing well. So what came first? Were my emotions controlled by a lack of glycogen and therefore I played poorly or did the lack of glycogen cause me to play poorly and my emotions never caught up. Either way, if you're going to work out and compete you have to be prepared physically and mentally and I had neither yesterday afternoon.
Last night a bunch of friends and I went out to
Max's Downtown for the first night of
The Taste of Hartford. Absolutely stunning food - amazing chopped salad with Gorgonzola cheese, enormous sea scallops and risotto, and a vanilla bean
Crème brûlée for $20.08! Pretty unbelievable and it goes on all week. Having just been in Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Seattle I have to say that the food in Hartford is at least as good and certainly worth trying when you come to visit. Finally, please check out this Google Map of our current Trinity College Women's Rowing team...I'd love to start adding locations of our alumni around the world as well as other points of interest. If you'd like to be included or have an idea of a place to be added please leave a comment.
Last week I traveled out to California and Washington for the weddings of two of my very good friends - Brian Washburn '01 and Kate Wetmore '02. Brian and I rowed in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls Challenge Cup in 2000 and in the Temple Challenge Cup in 2001 and it was fantastic to see he and his 
wife Beth so incredibly happy together. Many of Brian's high school and college teammates came to celebrate with him and it really struck me how the bonds in rowing can be so powerful. That was even more evident the following Friday when Kate married Jon Gillespie and had a huge turnout of the Yale Women's Crew to support her. That college rowing experience can be powerful is sometimes lost when you're in the midst of it as either a high school recruit or current college athlete - I hope we're able to enjoy both the current and post-college rowing time with each other as much as possible.
Played squash yesterday and lost 9-5, 9-7, 7-9, 9-4, 2-9 (we played five games regardless of who was first to three). Ate at around 10:00 and then played at 4:30 PM. Crushed! Not only was I hungry when we started but because I started losing I couldn't really control my emotions or focus on playing well. So what came first? Were my emotions controlled by a lack of glycogen and therefore I played poorly or did the lack of glycogen cause me to play poorly and my emotions never caught up. Either way, if you're going to work out and compete you have to be prepared physically and mentally and I had neither yesterday afternoon.
Last night a bunch of friends and I went out to Max's Downtown for the first night of The Taste of Hartford. Absolutely stunning food - amazing chopped salad with Gorgonzola cheese, enormous sea scallops and risotto, and a vanilla bean Crème brûlée for $20.08! Pretty unbelievable and it goes on all week. Having just been in Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Seattle I have to say that the food in Hartford is at least as good and certainly worth trying when you come to visit. Finally, please check out this Google Map of our current Trinity College Women's Rowing team...I'd love to start adding locations of our alumni around the world as well as other points of interest. If you'd like to be included or have an idea of a place to be added please leave a comment.
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