Nutrition for Peak Performance!

The New York Times advocates common sense.
(Thank you, NYT.)

Rowing in China

Coach, here is another fantastic article.
The favorite word of Igor Grinko, the head coach? Suffer.
"A hard practice means pain: legs burning, arms numb, lungs afire."
Best Line: Silver? It means nothing here; you might as well finish last.

Getting Faster

. . . on the water. This article is for you, Coach!

Anne Elliot on the Boston Marathon

The last few hours were certainly very painful . . . but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a [race] the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering -- which was by no means the case at [Boston]. We were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours, and, previously, there had been a great deal of enjoyment. So much novelty and beauty! I have [run] so little, that every fresh [race] would be interesting to me -- but there is real beauty at [Boston]: and in short . . . altogether my impressions of the [race] are very agreeable.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday TRP

I promise I will never lose another bet involving one of your masterworks.

Elizabeth Bennet, or yours truly?

You mean to frighten me . . . ? I will not be alarmed . . . . There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

134th Running

For those who love racing.