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fuckyeahcrew:

veronca:

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A ROWER WHEN….

• Everything you do is “on two…”
• You need to have a small pushy person around telling you what to do all the time
• You can get up, get dressed and get out of the house before your eyes are fully open
• The phrase “cox box” doesn’t make you giggle (sometimes)
• You believe the world wouldn’t exist without spandex
• You only recognize your friends from behind
• When you need to go anywhere, you have a sudden urge to throw your car over your shoulder
• You stick water bottles in your shorts for no reason at all
• You believe all authority figures carry a megaphone
• You sit in class leaning to your rigger (stroke side forever
• Half your body is bigger than the other
• You blame bad moods on “the set”
• Your friends need a rowing translator to decipher your language
• You can wear the same thing every morning for a week and not think twice
• You think sleeping late is waking up at 8:30.
• Everything’ s a race: you walk quickly to class, just so you can pass people
• When you sit down in class, you look for the tie-in shoes.
• You constantly check the tightness of nuts in handrails, chairs, door handles, etc.
• You think gloves are for sissies, but a nice pair of poogies is really stylin’ (I actually miss having blistered hands)
• Overhearing people talk about how littlesleep they got causes you to smirk, and maybe get medieval on their ass
• You bring up the beauty of the dawn, and people give you blank stares
• Your vision of going away for the weekend is other people’s vision of Hell
• You admire the man who wears boxers under his spandex much more than a woman wearing a g-string under hers
• You watch videos together, and it’s ok to say “She’s looking really long.”
• You’re giving directions to a friend and you wonder why she’s looking at you funny, until you realize you just said “to bow” instead of “take a left.”
• You dress and undress one-handed so you don’t have to take your hand off the oar
• You’ve accomplished so much before 8am compared to anyone else

I REALLY REALLY MISS ROWING.

ME TOO. Oh my gosh, so much.