The first post is always the hardest, just throwing it out there. Let me back up, my name is Brian and I will be blogging along side Chelsea this spring. Our goal is to give you, the readers, an inside look to what the life of a college rower is like. The spring is an exciting time in the sport of rowing because all of the races that we do are 2000 meter "sprints" that often come down to fractions of a second separating the crews at the finish line. I use the term "sprint" lightly because 2000 meters is a grueling distance for the body, so there is definitely an sense of pacing to it. That being said, the race only lasts around 6 minutes so it ends up being an all out sprint to the finish line between the crews.
If you don't already know, rowers end up spending around 30 hours a week in training, once you combine that with all of the time spent stretching and eating, we end up spending the majority of our lives with our teammates. With some sports, the game day memories are the only ones that live on; in rowing, there are so many personal and team goals achieved on a day to day basis that often times the greatest memories are from a Wednesday morning practice or a hot Saturday morning summer row. Throughout this spring, Chelsea and I will give you all a behind the scenes look into the memories as they are being made.
For example,
...Today a few of the guys on the team and I played in an intramural dodgeball tournament. Obviously we went in to it with a lot of confidence, too much I must admit, and came out with a good laugh (as we often do). After getting knocked out of the tournament, literally and figuratively, the guys went straight back to the rowing room to start their workout (as if dodgeball wasn't enough); this is what makes the sport so dynamic and incredible.
-Brian
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