A Day in the Life

In the past few months, my schedule has changed a lot. When I first started training at CRC, we trained twice a day on weekdays, every day, and once on Saturday mornings. At that point, we had fewer athletes, and the lead up to the Olympics meant training was everybody's top priority.

While I miss that atmosphere, the new schedule has allowed me to find work, which has been both fun and financially beneficial.

Currently, we train once as a group and sometimes once on our own on weekdays. To make up for the reduced weekday load, we often have four practices on weekends.

This is what a typical weekday looks like right now.

5:30AM - wake-up and eat breakfast ASAP; pack snacks/clothes for practice
breakfast: oatmeal, sunflower seeds, frozen berries, dried fruit, hemp protein powder, soy milk; coffee
6:15AM - bike down to the boathouse
6:45AM - arrive at boathouse and launch for practice (easy/medium 17 km row)
8:45AM - finish up practice, clean/put away equipment, bike home

The oars and boats all have to be washed and put away after each practice.

9:15AM - arrive home, eat snack, check email
snack: grapes!
10:00AM - shower, nap (yes, this is a crucial part of my daily schedule)
1:00PM - wake up, eat lunch
lunch: two homemade veggie burger patties, red cabbage slaw with quinoa and avocado
1:30PM - work (copy editing, responding to emails, etc)
2:30PM - snack! I think best when I'm moving, and even chewing helps; if I eat while I'm working, I will just keep munching mindlessly forever, so I chew gum. I'm usually starving by the end of an hour of furious gum chewing
snack: half PB&J, apple
2:45PM run errands and snack again
snack: granola bar, handful of peanuts, handful of cranberries
3:30PM - get ready for second workout (short, hard erg workout; 20' supplemental lift)
5:30PM - blogging, catching up on workout log
6:00PM - dinner!!!
dinner: Field Roast sausage on Acme bread, brussels sprouts, apple; Kashi GoLean with frozen berries, pomegranate seeds, soymilk for dessert
7:00PM - chores (getting ready for move, dishes, packing for tomorrow's workout, etc.)
9:30PM - bedtime!

After my poor performance in the race this past weekend, I'm working on sleeping more. I really think sleep deprivation negatively affected my race. It's such a preventable issue that I'd like to nip the problem in the bud. Fortunately, my schedule affords me the opportunity to take two hour naps and still go to bed at 9:30PM.