Fair Warning, Dear Friends, this Blog may just be TMI. As the title suggests. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let me just say I am very excited to be rowing in NJ this Sunday with my Rowing BFF in a women’s open double race. As with everything, I like to plan ahead. Are my kids (also rowing -- in two different meets) all set? Check. Did I wash my UnderArmour, my racing uniform, and pack my water shoes? Check. Boat loaded, tools packed, check, check. And one more thing -- do I have my Depends? Check.
I don’t know what to tell you -- it’s a long race -- 4,000 meters, which is 2.5 miles, plus you have to row another 1.5 miles up to the start. Plus there is just a lot of time waiting around. Waiting at the start, the referees turning you this way and that. Plus, we leave early -- the bus leaves at 7 am so I am up at 5:30 am chugging coffee. Then comes the Hydration phase. And what it all comes down to is, I don’t like to be uncomfortable. I am too old to be uncomfortable. So I will be wearing Adult Depends during my race JUST IN CASE. You know, in case Mother Nature calls and I am only halfway down the racecourse. Hey, surgeons wear them! This is common knowledge, all you have to do is watch Grey’s Anatomy.
Of course, I bought them at Price Chopper during my lunch hour. I threw the package of Depends into the grocery cart with all the other stuff and forgot about it. When I got home and my kids unloaded the groceries, I initially thought that there was a vermin or a dead cockroach in the grocery bag from the way these two boys were carrying on.
“Oh my gosh, what is that??!!”
“Mom, are you wearing DIAPERS now??!!”
“It’s for my race,” I explained coolly as I grabbed my diapers out of their hands. The ultimate irony, of course, is that I spent YEARS changing their dirty baby diapers. There is not justice.
“We don’t want to know,” they both said at pretty much the same time. Smarmy little rugrats.
My husband was much more understanding. A little too much so.
“What’s that look all about?” I asked him.
“I’m just thinking about that long trip to Maine,” he said, “does this mean we won’t have to make pitstops anymore?”
“Just give me those,” I said, as I hid them in my closet.
“Those will show under your spandex,” my kids pointed out.
“It’s not hygeinic,” they said, “ does Coach Kennedy know about this?”
“Coach Kennedy is the reason I bought these in the first place!” I said and I might have stomped my foot, with great annoyance. “How do you think I stay out in the motorboat for 8 hours with that man?”
That was a conversation ender. There were looks of great revulsion and then I heard nothing more on the topic.
So yes, I am prepared for our race this Sunday. Kathe and I will be racing an a women’s open 2x at the Head of the Passaic in NJ. Michael will be coxswain of a girls novice 8+ in the same race. And Christian will be at a race that it twice as big, the Head of the Riverfront in Hartford CT with ACRA, his rowing club, where he will be 2-seat in a LW 4+. Anthony will be, most sadly, taking his sailboat off the Hudson River for the season and wrapping it up this weekend. At least one of us will be comfy during our racing ;)
UPDATE: since I wrote this Blog, a couple of weeks ago, the Head of the Passaic has been canceled on Sunday, or postponed, with a new date to be set, due to the weather predictions. Head of the Riverfront will go on as planned. And Mrs. Lo will take that windfall of a day to make apple crisp. Low cholesterol apple crisp, of course ;)
Have a great day, everyone and, as always Remember to Count Your Blessings! <3 Mrs. Lo
(Photo of Mrs. Lo and Mrs. Mills at the Coastweeks Fall 2014 Regatta in CT, with our bronze medals). For more of the Mrs. Lo Blog, visit www.LoBiondoPage.blogspot.com
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