In Marin / conversation Kostecki gears up for grinding.
The Orthopedic Leaders
in San Francisco
process. Decisions have to be made that
much faster, and you have to decide if it’s really
worth it to pay the price of making a maneuver
that will slow you down. everything happens
very fast, but it’s now my new norm. Just like
with anything else, you adjust.
•;Total;Joint;Center
•;Spine;Surgery
•;Orthopedic;Surgery
•;Sports;Medicine
• Podiatry
•;Pain;Management
We’re closer to Marin than you might think.
With two convenient locations:
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital,
900;Hyde;Street (downtown)
saintfrancismemorial.org
St. Mary’s Medical Center,
450;Stanyan;Street;(across from Golden Gate Park)
stmarysmedicalcenter.org
Will any of your job duties change on the new
boats? While i’m the tactician on both boats
[the ac72 and ac45], my other jobs are a fair
amount different on the two boats. on the 72,
we have grinding pedestals [special equipment for trimming a sail], so if you aren’t
trimming the wing or headsail or driving,
you are grinding. so i will grind and do my
tactician job. on the 45 it is much more about
pulling ropes, so i was furling the gennaker
[one of the boat’s soft sails] downwind and
doing the boards. i had a lot to do on that boat
with just five sailors on board.
Has your training changed now that you’re
switching from the AC45 to the AC72? the
america’s cup races will be much shorter —
around 30 minutes — than traditional cup
races of the past, so we’ve been focusing on
highly aerobic workouts to match the on-the-water experience. as we prepare for the
ac72, we’ve reconfigured our gym to reassemble the layout of the boat and the jobs we
do. We’re in the process of building a simulated cockpit, so one of my new workouts will
see me shuttling back and forth from inside
the cockpit to grinder and back again. and to
take it a step further and test me in my role
