ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OF ROWING is that it puts me into intimate contact with what I call Lazy Bill.2 This creature lives in my subconscious mind, where it spends most of its time sleeping. When I am rowing, though, it routinely puts in an appearance. I will be straining to do a 500-meter practice sprint, or I will be 3,000 meters into a 5,000-meter race, and Lazy Bill will speak up: “You know, Bill, you could just stop rowing. Think of how much better you would feel if you just stopped rowing!”
