Racing With Eyes Closed

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This screenshot shows you the title of the video which I used for inspiration today.

 

I kept my eyes open… but the champion rower who was in the stroke position in the race video pictured above rowed with her eyes closed.

Today was a double-duty day which started with a little rowing to warmup and then a strength-training/pushups session, with rowing to occupy the rest times between pushups sets.  After that, I chose a POV video of the coxswain’s view of the winners of the 2012 HOCR W8+.  I chose a video of the women, because I had a better chance of keeping up with them, than with a crew of young men.  It was quite a workout, nonetheless especially considering that I also let myself have a little head start of some gentle rowing after starting the video and before the race actually started.

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For a large part of the race, the stroke rower seemed to be making up for the lack of sunglasses by keeping her eyes closed. The coxswain maintained a constant, stroke-by-stroke stream of instructions and encouragement, so she the rower could do just fine with her eyes closed … and she did, because they won the race in their category!

 

 

 

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This is a screenshot from the concept2.com online logbook which shows data from the rowing done during pushups/strength-training.
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RowPro software finish screen of my 3 mile row-along session with the HOCR 2012 Champs video
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Data and graphs for the 3 mile session. This is the report view from the concept2.com logbook instead of from RowPro.

Nothing to brag about but here’s the results of the last session of the 10th week of pushups/strength-training (on the bottom line labeled F for Friday of week 10):

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Happy inspirational rowing to you.