Comments on: The Ugly Side of Charity Rowing http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/ Follow My Journey to 100 km Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Michelle Toy http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Michelle Toy Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:01:45 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-138 Thanks Lorne. For some reason I always assumed that you were immune to those things, and that I just wasn't as strong as you. So it's good to know that someone as experienced as you still has to push past these challenges. Yeah, I rocked that 60 km today :) Thanks Lorne. For some reason I always assumed that you were immune to those things, and that I just wasn’t as strong as you. So it’s good to know that someone as experienced as you still has to push past these challenges.

Yeah, I rocked that 60 km today :)

]]> By: Lorne http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Lorne Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:21:22 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-137 Michelle It's a long haul - a lot of your symptoms are familiar to me as I get them in my marathon training.  As someone wise once said, the hardest part of this adventure is the months of training leading up to June 19.  It isn't the 100km, it's being ready for 100km that will kill you. Every marathon I run, I stand at the start line and replay what got me there.  It's a point of pride that I even made it to be in my shoes and shorts with a number on my chest.   So many people quit along the way because they didn't have it - the strength to get up every day and do the workout even when they felt crappy, the fortitude to push when it hurt, the stubbornness to get it done when it sucked to do it.  For you, too, it's going to be the proudest moment just to sit there on the morning of the 19th and realize what it took to get there. In the meantime, there's not much to do but soldier on.  60k today?  Well, you sucked it up big time.  The journey continues. Lorne Michelle

It's a long haul – a lot of your symptoms are familiar to me as I get them in my marathon training.  As someone wise once said, the hardest part of this adventure is the months of training leading up to June 19.  It isn't the 100km, it's being ready for 100km that will kill you.
Every marathon I run, I stand at the start line and replay what got me there.  It's a point of pride that I even made it to be in my shoes and shorts with a number on my chest.   So many people quit along the way because they didn't have it – the strength to get up every day and do the workout even when they felt crappy, the fortitude to push when it hurt, the stubbornness to get it done when it sucked to do it.  For you, too, it's going to be the proudest moment just to sit there on the morning of the 19th and realize what it took to get there.

In the meantime, there's not much to do but soldier on.  60k today?  Well, you sucked it up big time. 
The journey continues.

Lorne

]]> By: Michelle Toy http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Michelle Toy Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:11:29 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-136 Thanks for sharing that, Mark. This is what I need to hear :) Michelle Thanks for sharing that, Mark. This is what I need to hear :)

Michelle

]]> By: Mark Poston http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Mark Poston Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:33:38 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-135 Although I'm a complete newbie to indoor rowing many of the things you list in your post were the reasons why I could never find the willpower to get my arse into gear and do something about losing weight. The easy option for me would have been to carry on like I was. The reason I decided to finally do something about it was because of the greater life I will have with my family and particularly with my two children. The things I can't do now with them upset me, but the things I'll be able to do with them excites me. They are what keep me going. This isn't too different to you and the cause that you are rowing for. For the children you are helping their lives will change in ways that perhaps we cannot even imagine ... and I'm sure it will for you too. Although I'm a complete newbie to indoor rowing many of the things you list in your post were the reasons why I could never find the willpower to get my arse into gear and do something about losing weight. The easy option for me would have been to carry on like I was.
The reason I decided to finally do something about it was because of the greater life I will have with my family and particularly with my two children. The things I can't do now with them upset me, but the things I'll be able to do with them excites me. They are what keep me going.
This isn't too different to you and the cause that you are rowing for. For the children you are helping their lives will change in ways that perhaps we cannot even imagine … and I'm sure it will for you too.

]]> By: Michelle Toy http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Michelle Toy Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:59:25 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-134 Thanks everyone! You've all been helping me immensely through this - @chucktherower, @onemillionmeter, @doccottle. You rock! It's amazing how the mental component has been my biggest challenge to overcome. But I will turn this around. Maybe a Part 2 is in order for my next blog - with a powerful spin this time :) That was a great idea from Richard (via Facebook) I feel stronger already! Thanks everyone! You’ve all been helping me immensely through this – @chucktherower, @onemillionmeter, @doccottle. You rock!

It’s amazing how the mental component has been my biggest challenge to overcome. But I will turn this around. Maybe a Part 2 is in order for my next blog – with a powerful spin this time :) That was a great idea from Richard (via Facebook)

I feel stronger already!

]]> By: Charles Anderson http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Charles Anderson Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:26:26 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-133 We're all behind you, Michelle!  You can do it! I can't even imagine the pressures related to raising the money and training the way you are, but you are truly an inspiration, keep it up!  I'm sure you'll find your second (or third, or fourth) wind soon and everything will fall into place. We're all behind you, Michelle!  You can do it! I can't even imagine the pressures related to raising the money and training the way you are, but you are truly an inspiration, keep it up!  I'm sure you'll find your second (or third, or fourth) wind soon and everything will fall into place.

]]> By: Jeff Rice http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Jeff Rice Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:50:28 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-132 This really hits home!  I felt the same things at times in my charity row (which was a much shorter journey than yours).  I think this is a very normal part of these endeavors - and just generally in life.  It is a valley.  And with determination you will crank your way out to the next peak.   Hang in there Michelle!!!  May your valleys be brief and the peaks be glorious!!! This really hits home!  I felt the same things at times in my charity row (which was a much shorter journey than yours).  I think this is a very normal part of these endeavors – and just generally in life.  It is a valley.  And with determination you will crank your way out to the next peak.   Hang in there Michelle!!!  May your valleys be brief and the peaks be glorious!!!

]]> By: Peter Beck http://igo100.ca/the-ugly-side-of-charity-rowing/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Peter Beck Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:18:33 +0000 http://igo100.ca/?p=850#comment-131 Hang in there, Michelle! There's a fair number of folk cheering you on, including a vocal group of rowing brethren and sistren! Just keep rowing, as Katie Spotz has said. The biggest boo is in you -- <em>Resistance</em>, as Steven Pressfield says in "The War of Art." He makes the interesting point that when the Resistance seems strongest you may well be on the rightest track. Or as Michael Douglas has said, Do your best, then eff the rest :) Hang in there, Michelle! There's a fair number of folk cheering you on, including a vocal group of rowing brethren and sistren!
Just keep rowing, as Katie Spotz has said.
The biggest boo is in you — Resistance, as Steven Pressfield says in "The War of Art." He makes the interesting point that when the Resistance seems strongest you may well be on the rightest track.
Or as Michael Douglas has said, Do your best, then eff the rest :)

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