Rowing Adventures of La-La and Sha-Sha

u23 trials

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:51:46 -0400

woo hoo trials are fun!! can’t wait to race tomorrow!

more blogging to come tomorrow

ps i literally hate the number 125

Oh we also erged at the market fair mall.. It was odd.

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:29:31 -0400

Oh we also erged at the market fair mall.. It was odd.

Row this morning on mercer lake!!!

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:27:44 -0400

Row this morning on mercer lake!!!

need a new body

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:26:26 -0400

Day off today!!!! Woo. Well after doing a 15K that is.. And seat racing and pieces. Went and got a delicious breakfast, which consisted of chocolate chip pancakes, eggs and sausage! Also had my third bacon experience!! Still don’t know how I feel about it… Selection process is getting so long… Can’t wait until we know what boats we are in or of in any… Get to see ke$h-la next week!!! So pumped! Currently watching the village with Leigh… Who I think is asleep.. Our room smells like Crisp water! Nomnomnomnomnomnom

hello home... princeton!

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:52:00 -0400

so i haven’t blogged in awhile.. oops.

things that have been a major change in my life:

1. i have left the mighty oklahoma and have moved my life to princeton, where i get to live in a theological seminary with no kitchen or any appliances to make food.. hello oatmeal for the rest of my life… SO HAPPY! miss you nevahhhh

2. i have been eating a lot of pie since Finbar has been getting lots of packages from friends and they all tend to send her pie.. hey i don’t mind

3. I have spent about 40 dollars on nail polish so far.. i am in love with any essie color.. just like lala wrote in her post that color is awesome.. it is currently on my nails…

4. kayla and i are on the same wavelength of brain power or something… example: i also have been watching californication non-stop and that color is owned by me and is on my nails right now!… weird but awesome

5. an olympian drove me to princeton.. MARY WHIPPLE i died inside when i saw her.. filling a 15 passenger van with all our bags and 15 people was a challenge but was successfully completed!

6. my tans are getting worse.. i am now becoming a different race.

as for another aspects of life and rowing… the last few days in Oklahoma were decent we did a lot of seat racing in straight fours with massive cross winds and any sorts of wierdness going on the course… pairs crashing into bridges, breaking oars, more crashes. one day it was 108 degress.. that day i did a 6 by 20 min on the erg.. it was delightful and the heartrate 157… that number is going to give me nightmares.. let’s just say I was really glad to leave oklahoma. on the last day we went out and danced with the national team boys, ended up being a nice delightful night with funny stories. our plane was at 7 am to philly.. we left our apartments at 4:30 - too early. i slept on Mo at the airport while she blogged… apparently i twitch when i sleep… hmm. the traveling was fine nothing fun happened there… minus the van ride which was awesome..

princeton is pretty awesome though.. the weather is nice and it isnt 108!! funny story ran into my friend sam at walmart today!!! it was great! made my day! so far we have rowed on mercer lake where its FLAT and NOT WINDY!!! oh and we don’t have to consistently plug our noses to ignore the awful stockyard city smell that came over during the last 1000 in oklahoma… (so much stronger when there was cross-wind… oh wait there was always cross-wind there!)

but so far we have rowed about 400,000 meters.. cool

we took out big boats today and rowed this brand new boat!! ahh it was sooo smooth.. magical!

but currently ranked 4th on the port side.. while my girl moseph is 2nd! how awesome is that! working hard and not letting my head down though.. always ready to race! we are trying to make THE national team not some scrubby team.. duhhh

things i love

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:08:35 -0400

I am going to list 5 things that I have recently fallen in love with:

1. extra long bandaids - perfect for covering nasty blisters on yo fingahs

2. lattes - from this gelato place called capo giro - literally they are so good i die, their gelato is pretty ah-mazing too

3. californication - perfect for watchin in between our 3 practices a day, literally its so addicting and i’m already on season 4

4. essie bright tights - i just got a pedi this weekend and i LOVE this color, its soo summery and looks great wif my havaianas

5. and finally Max Brenner’s Chocolate Restaurant - E.Landy was working for JL at the schuylkill navy regatta this past weekend and we went out for dinner here. IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER LITERALLY THE BEST! We got the most delicious dinner of just dessert and i think i actually died for a couple minutes it was THAT GOOD.

not pictured: chocolate fondue with strawberries and bananas and make yo own smores

ok so those are the 5 things i am currently in LOVE with

xoxo

ke$h

storm is coming!!!

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:08:00 -0400

THERE IS A HUGE STORM COMING THIS WAY!!!!

70 MPH winds!!! we had to move all our boats into the boathouse… hopefully it will hold against the wind!

had a great evening and dinner with MO/Finbar today. some nice men gave us their watermelon so that was pretty sweet and they had some solid vegetables at dinner which was legit..and then we got slurpees and sat on the grass and talked about lyfe.. it was da best. pictures coming soon!!

practice was windy… in a four against 30MPH head wind trying to do 20s… ha that was funny.

aight almost to ptonn

xoxo

the russian

yay!

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:35:00 -0400

YAY SCULLING!

- KE$H

you know you are in oklahoma when....

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:20:00 -0400

1. it is nice and sunny, clear skies, within a millisecond the sky gets gray, dark and frightening… soon it starts hailing … hail the size of tennis balls.. let’s talk about how the world is ending and OKC is the first … also casual rainbow shows up later…

[please note the splash they are making]

[compared to my hand…..this is not real life]

2. random dance moves are being throw out in the erg room because we are so bored of waiting for our second practice to start.. obviously i attempt to cat daddy.. this is for carl-carl

but so far camp has been pretty sweet. went out in a straight four today. i felt like a gimp of gimps because i now have…. wait for it… wait for it.. A SEAT PAD!!!! what the… i was in shock but i do.. feel so tall on the water… we had a 6K on sunday.. I PRed however did not execute my plan correctly which was kind of depressing.. we did our 16K D Rotation Stepping 4 by 2K so much fun. and then some core.. my fav exercise is the windshield wipers… so much fun..

caution: these are not fun!

over the weekend i saw x-men and it was so ahhsomeee.. i want to have some secret power and be supa human.. being russian isnt enough i want to be an x-men!!! also their russian sucked in the movie.. soon we are going to princeton to humidity and hotness.. and no longer the nice apartments.. so sad… and we will be closer to knowing who makes what boat! wooo also finally went to sonic and devoured a chocolate malt after my 6K.. and dipped my fries in it SOOO GOOD, it was melting in my mouth.. best mouth orgasm ever.. so yeah that is it for right now!!!

xoxo,

sha-sha aka d@$h-d@$h… k3$hLa has a cool name why not have one too???

its been a couple of days - ke$hla

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:04:00 -0400

ok so my last bloggy was from like last wednesday right?? So since then I have still yet to become a master of sculling, almost killed myself in a single, had a 2k test, rowed some more, visited the zoo, went home for da weekend, and rowed a little more.

Day 2 like my 3rd practice ever, they put me in a single and say we’re doing like 4x8minz… i have never really been in a single before, except for a one week stint at craftsbury sculling camp after my freshmen year of HIGH SCHOOL… so when the coach said what we were doing and noticed my ghost-white like face, he casually asked if i have ever been in a single before and i said no so he let me do some SS… all alone. It was so scary!! There was also a lot of traffic on the river and i kept stopping every 3rd stroke and i thought i was going to flip and DIE. I was so happy once that practice was done!

Since then I have been like only rowing in a quad, which i like SO MUCH MORE. The quad is so much more stable, and friendly, and i don’t have to bow, and just a lot more relaxing. This morning i had to bow a double for the first time, and i BLEW… i was like freaking out the whole time and we couldn’t go straight and like ugh it was awful. But i think i will be in the quad from now on… hopefully.

Oh so the 2k… it went aiight - not like the stellar 2k the G-Thins did before IRAs, where i PRd woot woot - but I was pleased, i was the 2nd fastest!!

Oh and on friday our second practice was cancelled! so i went to the zoo fo da day wif rich(my boif)!! Look at these cool pics i took!!

look at these monkeys just hangin

and these are some gangley giraffes

these two crocodiles just love some snugglin!

i hope you lurved my captions!!

KLA

6K test day

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:33:00 -0400

that was my sunday.

more to come as for the blog.

maybe another strobe light storm tonight! oklahoma never stops surprising us here!

also had a casual 2 by 6K workout it was great… followed up with a 3 by 1500 in a piar! so much fun, especially when your steering does not work and you keep criss-crossing into the other people’s lanes..

having a 6K in general is against my religion, and testing should never happen on a sunday, however the days at camp are blurred together.

more to come….

peace and row,

sha-sha

p.s. great quote from my dad today: “dasha, always remember, russians never give up”

i will blog soon

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:08:27 -0400

everyone look out for a great post tomorrow by me! k3$hla!! i just got back to philly after being home for the weekend and am too tired to post, but i will update everyone tomorrow!! PINKY PROMISE!!

XOXOXO

K-LA

week 1

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:46:00 -0400

it has been a week since i have been in OKC. never ever let me every live here after college.. someone stop me and look me in the eye and ask me if this is what i am really going to do with my life.

the wind here is crazy, we couldn’t go out in pairs to day so we went out in an 8!!!! such a joy when you don’t have to worry about going straight or hitting a bridge or a buoy ..which has been a pattern in my life so far..

today we got the afternoon off! it was a joy! after a joyous 20K (at first we were only were suppose to do a 16K, but no tagged along another 4k) we got back and my roomie ro-ro and i made some delish eggs, then i went out to buy some more food and got delish froyo, also went to GOODWILL and bought TWO flannels and three shirts (which i cut up into awesome razor back tanks!0 and only paid 4.50 for all of that, what a great deal!!!

after i sporadically cleaned our kitchen.. it was one of those sha-sha goes crazy moments and starts cleaning.. loved it. then we have a BBQ with the boys national team who is training here. they are off to my motherland tomorrow so we were chattin up about russia and some useful vocab for them, it was a grand time.

the wind never dies down here.. it is amazing.. now i am off to bed. also waking up super early like la-la. vesper is da shit.

to la-la: dont hit any bridges and dont forget that there is an island and the dog leg!!!! and the stand are only 2.5K in… oh that river. how i miss thee.

xoxo

sha-sha

this is my delish froyo yummm

day 1 of summah rowin - ke$hla

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:46:00 -0400

so today actually the first day of this vesper rowing thing (i thought it was supposed to start tomorrow and then i thought it was supposed to start last thursday) so instead of missing 6 days of practice i only missed 2 actual practice sessions… thank gawd! anyways, so i SCULLED in a quad with these 3 other girls and it was not too bad. also i like kind of forgot how to talk and was a mute/really awkward the whole time and just it was weird but hopefully that will all get better. i am living in a townhouse like next to upenn with one other roommate, michelle - dont be fooled by the name but it is a boy who is kind of awkward and tubby and we like have said two words to each other and it was real awkward when we were both preparing our dinners in the kitchen. but yea so i can’t wait to wake up at 5 am tomorrow!!

PS LOOK AT THIS PIC OF ME EATING DINNER I MADE MYSELF IN MY NEW SUMMAH HOME!

SUPAH * POST

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:14:00 -0400

Hey its K-La,

So sorry I have only made one lame post but I have been a little busy with the IRA and then coming home and immediately having to unpack all my stuff from school, wash it all, and then re-pack it all up for summer rowing in Philly!!

So to sum up georgetown’s lightweight womens performance at the IRA, it was a disappointing finish but we are all ready to really work next year so we are not in the same place again.

After the IRA, most of the georgetown IRA competitors drove off to the wonderful beach town called Sea Isle. We stayed at the finest motel Sea Isle had to offer and had a splendid time!

So after that little vay-kay, I had to drive back home with my two G-Thins, Kaka and Kiki, and my mom treated us to manis and pedis! This was the only stress free time I have had at home - for the past 3 days I have been ferociously unpacking/packing up all my crew gear and trying to learn how to scull.

My sister and I have gone out twice in a double with my high school coach, it has been quite the challenge. Since I only have had 1 season of sculling experience (my novice spring in a quad - not my finest year of rowing) and 5 years of sweeping on port side, our double can NOT steer straight. My left arm has a MUCH stronger finish than my right arm, I basically have like a gimp right arm and supah strong left one, however my left wrist REFUSES to feather the blade, I do like a kind of pathetic little twist of the wrist that is really slow and gimp-esque. So hopefully this summer I can refine my sculling skillz and DO SOME WORK in those row boats.

AH I AM NOT DONE PACKING - MUST FINISH

xoxo

K-LA AKA LALA AKA KE$HLA

what up world

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:56:00 -0400

so la-la sucks at blogging… she is pretty slow. i just ate chocolate frosting from a spoon, i am getting fat… probably not possible since i am consistently sweating on da river

tan lines are getting really nice and dominant: flip-flop tan, slide bit cover tan, spandex tan, sunglasses tan, sportsbra tan… oh and a watch tan.. sick brahhh

things that make me happy, the fact that we are only doing a 16K tomorrow and have the afternoon off! yay… compared to the 50K we have done in the last two days.

room 332 now has only two people left… me and ro-ro- we both enjoy coffee, stationary, dance parties, and food.. we are meant to be great friends. oh she is also an aussie and super awesome.

by the end of the summer i am going to know how to shuffle, watch out world!

all i wanna do is cat daddy my summer away and take a hip hop...

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:13:00 -0400

all i wanna do is cat daddy my summer away and take a hip hop dance class.

someone let the white girls dance.

xoxo,

sha-sha

so many new blisters and awk tan lines.. love OKC..

First day in OKC! to start of the day i thought i saw a white...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:26:18 -0400

First day in OKC!

to start of the day i thought i saw a white swan… turns out it is just a fake one in the middle of the river.. along with a fake dog on the other side… obvi i was upset.

A couple of things:

1. these apartments are a def upgrade from last summer’s ridge ave one bedroom apartments.

2. it is windy.

3. it is not as hot as washington dc!

4. love me some pair rowing - NO BRIDGES HAVE BEEN HIT…. YET

5. i was not the last person out of the grocery store today, fellow friends were shocked!

6. downloaded some great music [everyone go download Swedish House Mafia’s “Save the World the Timebomb Remix” sooo good to erg to do!]

OUR BOY’S TEAM HAS BEEN DOING AWESOME SO FAR! TOP 12 IN THE COUNTRY BABY!

FIRST POST BY KE$HLA AKA LA-LA

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:51:00 -0400

hey tumblrweeds - haha - so i dont really understand how to work this blog thing but sha sha told me I must blog

I am in the lovely camden NJ right now for IRA’s

its SUPER windy today, thank gawd our races don’t start till tomorrow

we are all supah pumped for our heat tomorrow - we’ll be racing princeton and radcliffe it will be an interesting race since this will be the first time we race these crews in our new line up

WOO HOO I’M SO EXCITED!!

look at our cool IRA tanks!

I saw someone say you row for Georgetown..? One of my teammates from Marin is going to row there next year. Her name is Lindsay!

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:50:53 -0400

yes yes!!! we just got out recruit list and she is on it!! i am excited!