I began rowing as a senior in high school up in Massachusetts. I remember how awesome I looked in my prom dress after a season of butt kicking on the erg and as seven seat in our 8.

When I left high school and became the couch potato I am today I never imagined that I would ever be able to row again, especially if I moved back home. When I saw them sculling along Kindley Field Road last summer I was thoroughly taken by surprise but ecstatic that someone had gotten rowing up and running on the Island.

A few calls and a little Internet research by NTF and SarahT and I were out doing one of our favourite things.

Yesterday, I received an e-mail offering me a seat in the associations new 4 (which can also be turned into a quad as seen in this picture)

Photo provided by BRA

I'll be training three to four times a week if we can work out scheduling and it will be the major butt kick I need. I'll be rowing with younger girls, two of which are currently rowing competitively at school right now. So, I'll need to pull out all the mental and physical stops to keep up with them. If it all works out, it will finally give me the motivation I've been looking for and maybe I might look as good as I did in that prom dress (I won't actually be wearing the prom dress but bathing suit or anything that currently resides in my closet) six years ago!