Training Log Archive: j-man

"There had to be a form and purpose to life. That was one of the interesting things about rowing. Those who competed at this level did so with a demonic passion. Yet there was no overt financial reward at the end, nor indeed was there even any covert financial award, a brokerage house wanting and giving special privileges to the famed amateur."

Two today because they are so good.

"One could understand the son of a ghetto family playing in the school yard for six hours a day hoping that basketball was a ticket out of the slum; it was harder to understand the son of Beacon Hill spending so much time and subjecting himself to so much pain to attain an honor that no one else even understood. Perhaps in our society the true madness in the search of excellence is left for the amateur." [emphasis mine]

True dat, as they say.

[editorial cheap shot]: The search of excellence may be the domain of the amateur competitor, but certainly not that of the amateur event organizer. There, benighted mediocrity is the coin of the realm.

Good run.

Intense circuit.