New Year's at the Training Center

So I rang in the New Year with more workouts... I arrived at the US Olympic Training Center in San Diego on Dec 30, rowed twice on New Year's Eve and twice on New Year's Day. Suffice to say, I didn't do a lot of partying that night. I think it was the first time that I can remember actually sleeping through midnight.... Ordinarily New Year's would definitely be off from practice, but not this time around. I suppose it is only fitting because it's what I'll be doing non-stop for a good chunk of this year.

Arriving at the training center was pretty surreal. I spent six months here leading up to the 2004 Olympics, and when I stepped back in it was like getting into time warp. I'll write more about what life is like down here when I get some more time, but it's a pretty simple life that revolves around training, eating and sleeping. The weird thing is that it feels like I never left.... the whole time I was off in business school, living and training in Princeton - seems like it never really happened and that I stepped into a weird time warp. Such is the curse of this place.... a minimum security prison. We are well taken care of - but we can't leave....