I took some of my own advice yesterday and bought an hour’s worth of the time of a serious rowing coach. I asked him to map out a regimen for the three months from now to the Head of the Charles race in late October (for which I may or may not qualify). He is a very serious guy and – if I should happen to have the resolve to do half of what he says – I should be a serious, old rower, come fall. We’ll see.