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College - at least it'll probably be on a livecast and you can watch from the comfort of a La-Z Boy. I don't go to watch rowing unless it's for work. However, it's taking me to Harvard-Yale in a few weeks. Do they have sharks in the Thames?
I suggest renting an AirBNB house for us. Can cook, wash all the rowing gear, separate bedrooms, more space. Can get one 2 blocks from the beach for the same price as the hotel.
Nope, that won't be any fun. All the other kids are staying at a hotel. It will be so much more fun being at the hotel, I'm told.
This is getting to be more expensive than an Ironman.
It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than tri or cycling in most countries. I used to coach a club junior program where we charged £300 a year. That included coaching, equipment, and everything other than race entries. It is cheaper thus than playing club football here, although dependent upon volunteer coaches.
In a non-volunteer program such as the one I used to run, we charged AUD $1700/year, which included all equipment, camps, all regattas, food at camps, transport, buses to school after training etc...
As to the gifted? Look at the walk on freshman boats at Wisco, a number of the American U23 athletes, and a large number of scholarship athletes in NCAA women's programs. Title 9 has meant that coaches will seek out gifted athletes and teach them to row!
I'm a bit arsey about this - I didn't go to a rowing school, picked it up much later, and got OK. I've a friend who picked it up at 20 and went on to a few World Championships and the full set of Olympic medals.
And that was the end of my rowing career.
Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Words to live by... until you get married
Anyways - thanks especially for the B13 stuff at the moment. It's an examination the sport needs to have.
For women, it's a bit different since they have NCAA status and are historically underserved here I the US, but a junior program will still have the same challenges as the men's side since there simply isn't easy access to programs. Anyone can rock up on a rowing machine and bang out some intervals to prove you have the strength/stamina to perform, but without the practice in the boat for timing and form, it's a tough ask to start in the top boat from day one without coming from a junior program.
It's a shitload easier to load that into the trailer than all the rest of the junk I'm hauling over to the site. No big deal. Let's create some more fun/interesting events.
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Standard 2000m test? I suspect @altayloraus would smoke me, but seeing as he probably won't be flying in from Aus-land, I'll give myself even money on winning. I have some experience flogging myself for 4-8 minutes.
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4*500, with the 'rest' slamming a beer.
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I know he has trouble in the heat, but hopefully will be a factor. And Gomez's 2nd appearance? Fireworks are likely.
Back on topic, the only scenarios I see where AB is a factor are:
a. He comes out on the pointy end of the swim (which is a given), rides the Starky-Wurf Express, with Starky riding at a homicidal pace, and they maybe hold off the TTT from behind. I think AB can run faster than those guys, so he's in with a shout in that scenario.
b. There is discord in the Team Erdinger camp and the two-time defending champ has to spend more of the race with his nose in the wind.
I don't think Brownlee ever cracks top 5 in Hawaii. Some guys just don't do heat.
Really proud of her. They were broadcasting it live on Youtube so had the whole family watching online.
It's amazing how old school rowing is. I think there is one company making the equivalent of a bike computer and same company makes a digital oar lock that acts like a power meter. And very limited amount of of people use the digital oar lock.