Hello, everyone.
I’m going dark here on the blog for a couple of weeks. I have a backlog of things I want to write on, but Henley Royal Regatta is coming up and my entire non-work focus is dedicated to that. The photo above is a IV, but I’ll be racing in an VIII.
Wish […]
Entries Tagged as 'Rowing'
Running silent…
June 23rd, 2008 ·
Tags: Rowing · London Life
Rowing update
May 23rd, 2008 ·
So I had what was billed as our last 2k test of the season last night. While I think I still can shave a few seconds off, I pulled my best score of the season, and also a new personal best!
For this test our entire VIII (bar one guy) all did it at the […]
Tags: Rowing
Rowing training camp
May 12th, 2008 ·
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, and finally have gotten around to downloading the photos. (My wife’s photos; she’s the photographer in the family.)
Thames Rowing Club spent just over a week in Temple-sur-Lot, France, which is about a 90-minute drive southeast of Bordeaux. The area is apparently well known […]
Tags: Rowing · London Life
Evolution: one thought to two
May 7th, 2008 ·
I was just thinking about my evolution as a rower recently. When I first started, I could only think about and fix one thing at a time. (The catch, the finish, rowing hard, tapping down, handle height, etc.) Anything more and it all would come apart.
I have now evolved and can think of two things […]
Tags: Rowing · Weird Stuff
Today was the UK’s Unofficial “Workout after Work” Day
March 31st, 2008 ·
The UK “Workout after Work” Day is celebrated on the Monday evening after shifting to Daylight Savings Time. Here in the UK, that day was today.
As expected, thousands of people that likely haven’t done any real working out in the past few months went running, cycling, walking or managed a similar workout this evening. […]
Tags: Announcements · Rowing · Weird Stuff · London Life
Head of the River Race 2008
March 18th, 2008 ·
So this last weekend I was finally able to race in the Head of the River Race; only my second time in four years. (2007 was cancelled because of absolute s**t water conditions, and in 2006 I was diagnosed with a broken rib just a few days before the race.)
Considering that we only had […]
Tags: Rowing · London Life
Bad karma
March 3rd, 2008 ·
is spending the entire weekend seat racing, only to find that the lift at work is broken down, thus needing to walk up and down six flights of stairs to get in or out of the office. Fun…
And my hands are still torn up. (At least they’ve stopped feeling like someone has been […]
Tags: Rowing · London Life
Good quote
February 6th, 2008 ·
I found this great quote today from an ancient New York Times Magazine piece on Bill Parcels.
Don’t confuse routine with commitment.
I think I’m going to have to remember that in my rowing training. Just showing up because I’ve always shown up isn’t enough; I have to always push myself.
Tags: Quote · Rowing · Inspiration



