OT - Ready at the catch! --- 3 - 2 - 1 ....... .row!

Did you ever wonder why they don't let you sit in the bow?

Sometimes you just don't want to see whos behind these postings.

All I'm getting is "

Did it get taken down already?

...Jim Thompson

I heard that the Harvard Over-40 Rowers' Club had a tee shirt that said, "The older we get, the better we were."

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Now it's working, 7:58AM MST.

...Jim Thompson

Are you referring to me, or to my tongue?

Hello Win,

Is that why it's called "Row-Land" Institute? Should have mounted that underwater pressure housing from AoE on the stern of the boat as a mascot.

Hey, your beard is coming back!

Ha-ha, maybe! Actually, nobody knows why Dr Land named the Institute as he did.

Ya. I gave my underwater vehicle to NOAA years ago, after they lost theirs to a towing accident. They were pleased.

It comes and goes, depending on what part of the week, or even what week. Haven't you heard, a little growth is in.

There must not be a lot of shock and vibration on those shells. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Whoa, it's not all smooth sailing. Hopefully not rough enough to bite one's tongue, but for novice rowers the struggle to keep the boat level while rowing hard was a big difficulty we faced.

The velocity jerks that result from eight rowers pulling their bodies forward after a stoke, suddenly stopping while starting the next stoke, and the variable rowing forces during a stoke, means the boat is a jerky place to be. This is especially true when the cox yells, "Power ten in two," immediately after one has completed a previous power ten. Six of these power tens in a row severely depletes one's energy, and boat control becomes a matter bordering on chaos. That's when mistakes occur, like one that cost us our 2nd race. We were first of three boats, leading by an entire boat length just two lengths from the finish, when one rower "caught a crab" and we quickly dropped to 2nd as the competing boat power ahead and we foundered.

'Course, one has to ask, Why were we ahead to begin with? One possibility is the 2nd-place boat had their own difficulties, allowing us to go ahead, but they got it together in the end. We at least won enough races to place 4th in the field of 10. That's not bad, considering my modest goal was not to be last!

Sounds like a great day. You beat your goal, got some exercise, and had some fun. :)

In article , Winfield Hill wrote: [snip]

Well, your face does have a certain look of desperate concentration, (or even concentrated desperation). :)

Good on you for even doing it.

I had a T-shirt I got at a veterans hockey tornament that said the same thing, but in the singular. There were a bunch of other things such as bumper stickers that said "Vets do it gratefully".

Regards Ian

In message , dated Wed, 9 Aug

Huh? What sort of 'vets'? Ex-soldiers or animal doctors?

What's a "power ten"- is that 10x strong row pulls? Well what are you doing when you're not in "power" mode?

That's how you increase your energy output capacity- by depleting it in training. If the race requires approximately 8 power tens, then you should train for 16.

Isn't that rowing a controlled breathing motion, exhale slowly on core contraction, and quick inhale on relax. When you break cadence on your breathing, you tire. And suck that gut in- pull your belly button straight into your backbone, or maybe that was the wind that caught your shirt...

Win,

You're a credit to your race.

Bob

As it said in my (misspelt) OP: "veterans hockey tournament", specifically the Sevenoaks Veterans Hockey Festival. There used to be 10-12 men's teams and 8 ladies teams from several countries (Scotland, England, France, Netherlands, Gibraltar, Ireland, and I see there's now a Canadian team taking part).

Copious amounts of beer, nobody taking things too seriously (apart from one team from London made up from ex-international players who did not socialise, and sent a fresh team for each day).

Regards Ian

In message , dated Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Ian writes

Oh, sorry; I saw 'agilent' and assumed 'USA'.

Geeks or Greeks?

Was there any headless chickens running around?

-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell Central Florida