Talk about a nice intro back into rowing, went back for my college 10 year last weekend...and somehow ended up in a pair with a former men's heavyweight spare for the olympics...(now a pair is significantly harder and heavier to row than an 8, which is what i expected to be in...)
The first boat my college coach looks at us getting in and says "you will sink that one, take one of these other two..." we take down the next one and i sit down and something seems off. "uhm, i think this is starboard stroked, my oar is supposed to go off my right" carry the boat back up with peanut gallery comments "you guys just practicing carrying the boats up and down?" third boat worked well, but we must have rowed 6 miles or so, rediscovered the blisters on my hands and fun of trying to balance a pair. mind knew what to do, but the body was a little caught off guard ;)
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