The terror of the bumps newbie...

[dua]

Sooooo.... I have been lurking muchly. This is mostly because life has consisted of:

• rowing
  
• working
  
• eating
  
• sleeping
  
• trying to organise a wedding...
  

which mostly sums stuff up. However, I feel the need to point out that Bumps starts today and I am more nervous than I think I have ever been. It's not just that we're racing. Oh no. I can deal with that. We've done several 2ks over the course of this term and that sort of thing. The thing that terrifies me is you don't know how long you're going to have to row for... we might get Tit Hall by first post corner, in which case we're rowing for about 400 metres. Or, they might hold out all the way down the reach and Magdalene don't catch us, in which case we'll be rowing for over 2k. The control freak in me is not loving this as a state of affairs. Thus, I panic. It will all be fine really. It's not actually a major disaster if we go down to Magdalene, but will be v annoying. And in reality, all I need to do is keep rowing until someone tells me to stop, which is something I am capable of (at least, for 2k or so). So it will all be fine really.

Now, will someone convince my brain of that?