Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Urine Water
Lindsey and Jen. Two great rowers and definately unique individuals. It was New York States last year in May that thier individuality got our crew covered in urine water. It was a typical May regatta, cold and wet. However there was an exceptional amount of wind. Boats were being swamped with water rushing in from the sides. Bowballs, normally 5-6 inches of the water, were only 2-3 inches off the water. As crews were lifting boats full of water up over head from the dock sheets of water came pouring out along the length of the boat. Crews were soaked, it was just a nasty day. Our varsity boat decided to take a water bottle out with us to bail the water out. We set out for the starting line. I periodically held the bottle under my strokes seat to get the water rushing up to the stern of the boat. We finished our warm-up with some time to spare. It was then that Lindsey mentioned how she had to pee. We didn't have the time to let her go outside the boat, which was a task in itself. I told her to hold it, and row harder so we finished sooner. It wasn't but a few minutes later that Lindsey and Jen decided they were soaked enough and there was enough water in the boat so that no one would notice if they just went in their uni's. Two of my varsity rowers had decided to pee their pants before the race instead of waiting until the race was over. So now, I'm bailing out the water in the boat and all I can think about is their urine and how much of the "water" was really from the wind. During the race I wasn't able to bail the boat anymore so whatever water and urine was in there had to stay until we made it to the docks. When we got to the docks there was an inch of "water" in our boat that we had to lift over head. Again as my crew lifted their boat over head all I could think about was Lindsey and Jen peeing in the boat and how much urine was now being dumped on my crew.
As told by Diane Seaver
As told by Diane Seaver
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