Day 4 If you take a good stroke, and your coach isn't around to see it, did it really happen? - 25 things Angie Nocella learned in Miami
My trip to Miami has been extremely insightful. I have learned valuable lessons that will last a lifetime.
Lesson 1: Your senior roommate will take advantage of her seniority.
I.E. Take two towels, have three pillows, make bad jokes, and blame you for sand in the shower.
Lesson 2: Group messages with 19 people are always a bad idea. ALWAYS
Lesson 3: Do your wash. Allowing your laundry to sit in a closet will make your hotel room smell like a boys locker room.
Lesson 4: The weather is like a teenage girl, moody for no reason and always changing.
Lesson 5: Always push harder at practice
Lesson 6: Have a light grip on the oar
Lesson 7: When in doubt see lesson 5
Lesson 8: You watch video for a reason, take your coaches advice it will help you. Although it normally consists of lessons 5 and 6 and maybe more forward body angle.
Lesson 9: Always google any questions you have. You will learn a lot of interesting things. Such as why one lung is bigger than the other.
Lesson 10: Perfection is unattainable, just ask your coach about your technique.
Lesson 11: You have to start to fail, but you also have to start to succeed. So you might as well start
Lesson 12: Seriously listen to lesson 5 and 10
Lesson 13: People make funny and convincing animal noises, just ask your local maintenance man. He has a killer dog bark
Lesson 14: When performing lesson 5, only use your outside arm. Your inside arm is for feathering not pulling
Lesson 15: When lesson 4 is occurring hold onto lightweights and coxswains they're like diamonds…precious
Lesson 16: Having a good pair partner is a lot like speed dating. Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you don't.
Lesson 17: Always remember your seat pad because, well, see lesson 10.
Lesson 18: Leave the sand at the beach because of rule 1, also it clogs your shower that already didn't drain. And also sandy showers are gross
Lesson 19: Sometimes your hotel room looks like something out of the exorcist or the Shining
- if this is true have your senior roommate double as a bodyguard / ghostbuster
Lesson 20: Always have quarters to avoid lesson 3. Clean laundry is not cheap
Lesson 21: Keep tabs on your slightly smaller, fun sized sophomore roommate. She gets scared in large crowds
Lesson 22: You can do anything for a 2k, so harder - YOU WILL RACE IN THESE CONDITIONS
Lesson 23: Never lets your coach drive a launch that looks like it went through the Vietnam War, it will flood and she will get stuck, but you will keep rowing
Lesson 24: Although Attack and Defend sounds like Cowboys and Indians, its not. Its brutal, unfair, and demoralizing…so demoralizing
Lesson 25: As hard as rowing life can be in Miami, it could be so much worse in Philadelphia…on the Schuylkill…in January
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