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This past weekend, I came within a foot or two of my oar colliding with a suitcase floating down the river (typical black rolling bag). Would have flipped me for sure. I whacked one of those thin plastic fruit containers with my oar and while nothing happened, it was SO loud that for a second I thought something must have cracked. Rowed over a log that bumped along the bottom of my boat, but didn’t damage anything, thankfully.

A friend hit a big branch and flipped…the branch had a blanket caught up in it, and wrapped in the blanket was a dead dog.

My coach murdered two geese. He says it was an accident…

Someone else in my club collided with a tugboat.

Seems like everyone has a great story. What near-misses or full-on collisions have you had?

Hey friends, my stats: 60 F, 5’2” SW 141, CW 131, GW 130

I’ve been working on dropping 10 pounds since January and I’m *almost* there! One more pound to go.

I’ve been taking it slow with an average of 1,450 calories a day because my strength training (twice a week intense with a coach) and rowing (on the water or on the erg 2-3-4 times a week) are really important to me and I don’t have enough energy if I eat less. (I know that’s low target for someone who is really active, but I destroyed my metabolism starving myself back in the 80s -90s, and I never recovered despite building a whole lot of muscle since then.

Like many of us, my weight can fluctuate a pound or sometimes more from day to day. When I see the scale up, I cut back further, get back to the plan, but with only one pound left, it’s getting harder to see where this ends! I’ve been bouncing up and down by 1-1.5 pounds every week and not making much progress. In my stupid past, I’d just keep starving myself, but I do eventually want to try and get back a slightly more generous diet.

How does everyone transition from cutting to “normal” ? Or is this my new normal?