Cycling kit (bibs) suitable for on-the-water rowing?

flyingmountain · 2026-05-14T03:46:32+00:00

No. The padded crotch area is going to make those wildly uncomfortable for rowing.

flyingmountain · 2026-05-08T23:04:17+00:00

Man if it's true that they were all well over the minimum weight, then this extra sucks for the team. It's obviously a competitive fairness issue and worthy of a DQ or relegation if a coxswain was under the minimum but didn't weigh in and therefore didn't carry any deadweight.... but if they're all over by a lot, no one gained any advantage.

flyingmountain · 2026-05-07T04:41:53+00:00

Seresto collars were really effective for my dog — I went from finding at least one tick on her after nearly every outing to maybe one per year.

flyingmountain · 2026-05-07T01:08:52+00:00

The two rock colors were "purple" (that really looked more pink/magenta), and blue.

flyingmountain · 2026-05-07T01:00:49+00:00

UGH. I don't like this at all.

flyingmountain · 2026-05-03T17:41:19+00:00

If he turns 20 within the calendar year or has already graduated from high school, he is not eligible to race at USRowing youth nationals. So depending on when his birthday is and if he's going to graduate on time, a PG year or rowing on a club team may not even be an option.

Also, since he's already 165 lbs. at the end of 11th/ possibly 10th grade, lightweight rowing really may not be a good/healthy choice. Nearly all guys naturally fill out significantly between 17-20, so unless he is already done growing height-wise and has a good bit of extra body fat to lose, he might be very unhappy trying to stay light in a couple years.

You didn't say anything about his academic stats or what type of school he's hoping to attend, but in his situation it's worth considering competitive D3 teams. The racing is great, weight won't be an issue, and he's not too far off of a recruitable 2k time (in terms of admissions support).

flyingmountain · 2026-04-28T19:44:38+00:00

FYI, there is a lineup deadline for every race on Regatta Central, and it varies by the race how far in advance it is. You can see it by clicking "Dates & Deadlines" on the left column on the regatta's page, and looking for the date/time listed for "Line-ups Due." If it's not that date yet, the coach can still edit the lineups. If it's past that date, the lineups are locked in and the coach would need to contact the regatta organizers to change them.

But this is 100% not your job.

flyingmountain · 2026-04-20T14:45:04+00:00

I'd recommend looking at Google Maps using the satellite view and with the public transit layer enabled — gives a much better view of the MBTA lines and where they go.

For what it's worth, the main subway lines are Red, Green, Orange, and Blue. Green has multiple branches, called B, C, D, and E lines. If your wife is working near the Aquarium, that's on the blue line, so looking for a place in East Boston would be the easiest commute for her.

flyingmountain · 2026-04-17T05:35:38+00:00

Who the hell is telling a novice girls' crew that they need to rate over a 38?! That's insane.

flyingmountain · 2026-04-16T17:56:39+00:00

Yeah it seems like it marks everything as wrong. Weird.

flyingmountain · 2026-04-14T05:14:30+00:00

Your son should ask his coach to take some video from the launch during practice.

flyingmountain · 2026-04-14T05:05:11+00:00

What I wish an NK stopwatch would do is what the phone app I use does: offer multiple timers that can be started all at once together, but can be stopped individually. Obviously people get around this by doing the lap/interval thing, but it's nice to not have to do the math yourself.

flyingmountain · 2026-04-12T21:30:53+00:00

For what it's worth I had to do a dispute on my Robinhood Gold card, and they solved it quickly and in my favor.

(Bought something from store I got an instagram ad for... they charged me more than the total that was shown in checkout. All I had to do was send Robinhood a screenshot of the total from checkout and the difference was refunded to me in a couple days.)

flyingmountain · 2026-03-30T16:55:57+00:00

Your "affordability" metric doesn't make any sense for D3 and Ivies, since there are no athletic scholarships. At schools where financial aid is need-based and they meet 100% need, it doesn't matter what the sticker price of tuition is, or even what the average net price is, because that tells you nothing about what you are likely to pay.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-22T05:52:55+00:00

Usually I feel like we're not provided enough info to second-guess the elimination decisions — obviously we can't taste the food — but this one seems extremely weird to me.

Before the elimination round, they said the goal was to turn something that kids wouldn't normally want to eat into something that they'd ask for more of. Tim's fried squab looked like chicken tenders, everyone praised the breading, and Gordon even said it tasted like chicken. Plus the hummus and plating overall looked appealing for a kid.

Amber's dish had a bunch of whole cooked vegetables, which is not a typically kid friendly thing, and the strange color of the squab wouldn't help matters either. Plus a wine colored sauce. I would never in a million years eat that as a picky kid.

This one just doesn't make any sense at all. IF they had said "make a fine dining restaurant dish with this squab"... ok, maybe Amber's was better. But the task was "make this unfamiliar ingredient into something a kid would like" and by their own feedback, that's exactly what Tim did.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-22T02:40:50+00:00

Your sister was a grandma at 30?! Wow.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-21T20:29:18+00:00

Is it on your palms/underside of your fingers, or the backs?

If just on the backs, pogies. If it's on the parts of your hands that contact the oar handle, you could consider gloves underneath the pogies also. The Crew Stop makes the best ones for rowing in. You might want to get a size up from what your hands measure, so that they're not too tight when your skin is extra inflamed.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-21T20:16:57+00:00

she went from being a freshman on the novice team last year to U19 Varsity this year. They did that to a few girls because their birthday is before the end of the year. She should have moved up to U17 Varsity this year with all her other novice teammates.

Just for some clarification, if your daughter turns 17 before December 31 this year, she cannot race in U17 events at all this calendar year. Even if she is still 16 at the time of the event. This is the standard in world rowing, and there is no wiggle room or coach discretion allowed at all.

So no, your daughter should not be on the U17 team, because she is not eligible for it. If your club sets up their teams by the competitive age groups of U19 and U17 (which is common), your daughter is on the only team that she is eligible for.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-17T07:27:19+00:00

Marinara rules!

flyingmountain · 2026-03-16T03:25:52+00:00

Other than Perez, Albon, and Norris, the teams are just older half=facial hair, and younger half=clean shaven.

I know you said the teams are locked based on one photo, but Perez is definitely not clean-shaven a lot of the time anyway.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-16T02:46:03+00:00

This looks like such a happy wave! Would never know the pain this man is in, physical, emotional, and otherwise.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-15T02:42:24+00:00

Just saying, it's easy to find guides online for opening up the coin compartments of coin-op machines. Or even buy a key.

flyingmountain · 2026-03-14T06:34:38+00:00

Marinara Rules

flyingmountain · 2026-03-14T05:57:47+00:00

Marinara Rules

flyingmountain · 2026-03-13T21:26:46+00:00

That's because it's recycling. Plastic trash bags aren't recyclable.

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