At the time I did this challenge, I hadn't started sailing the FX. I don't think it had even been introduced yet (or maybe it was just newly established as the new female double-handed skiff Olympic class). Anyway, I first started sailing this boat in 2013. And it was love at first launch ( Read more... )

So, a thousand five years ago I started this 100 things blogging challenge where I set out to post 100 things about sailing. I got all the way to #65 before I ran out of steam. But it was a nice resource that I actually came back to when I wanted to explain things to people sometimes, and today I thought about it again because I was helping a ( Read more... )

This rule, which I alluded to in yesterday's Rules Post, is all about not crashing. I'm serious. The title of the rule is AVOIDING COLLISION. (Yes, with the all-caps ... but then all the titles have all-caps.)

( Yes, it's important that you don't crash ... )

Side note to all of you who know about the campaign - looks like I'm out of the running for the Olympics after all ( Read more... )

This post brought to you courtesy of my waking up itching to run this morning. Technically our fitness training schedule's supposed to be on a taper meaning cutting back as we get closer to the big competition. So I wasn't supposed to do an hour-long run. But to hell with it. It made me feel better ( Read more... )

Mm, on that issue that's being beaten to death by all fandom ... lyras brought my attention to this. Macro lovers, are you seeing that? Bwahaha ( Read more... )