i went windsurfing yesterday. it was intense and fun and i spent a lot of time swimming in the charles, which is essentially an awesome heated pool at this point in the summer. our instructors were ridiculously good looking in a windsurfer way; i thought i was watching a disney channel movie or something.
but yeah. about windsurfing though...it was really hard work, with a lot of core to maintain stability on this small floating thing and then more core and quad work to pull the giant sail out of the water...and then to hang off it. i'm pretty sure i know nothing about sails and wind and stuff so perhaps if i had known more it would have been easier, but i'm excited to go back out. my coxing navigational skills are way better than my windsurfing ones at this point in time. because i didn't really know that much about the winds, i would sometimes turn unintentionally, and then when i'd get super close to the shore (right near union boat house) and i'd want to turn, i couldn't. so i'd have to drop the sail and jump into the water to manually flip the nose of the board around.
i didn't see any crew shells around, so i didn't become one of the people i typically loathe during practice who aimlessly wander around the basin with no regard for river traffic patterns.
anyway i don't know if that counts as working out or not, but my muscles now hurt this morning so i will post this anyway. hope you are all having a splendid summer.
I took a windsurfing class in the spring! It totally is a workout. I was pretty terrible in the beginning. I would get blown to the opposite side of the lake, crash into the rocks, and spend 2 hours trying to get out until time was up and I either had to swim the board back or sometimes an instructor would come with a kayak to trade. But by the end of the quarter I could successfully go out and come back in. Also once I flipped the board and somehow I lost my centerboard completely, which was like losing the fin in a boat- not pretty.
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