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Slowly reconnecting

It’s been a while since I’ve posted regularly here. Essentially the run-up to Henley Royal Regatta consumed every scrap of spare time I had. If you haven’t heard of it, Henley is one of the top rowing regattas in the world. It’s held on an absolutely beautiful stretch of the River Thames [...]

Running silent…

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 [...]

Rowing update

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 [...]

Rowing training camp

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 [...]

Evolution: one thought to two

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 [...]

Today was the UK’s Unofficial “Workout after Work” Day

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. [...]

Head of the River Race 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 [...]

Bad karma

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 [...]