Company Is Good

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A rower in Canada wanted to join the session, at the last moment before it started. Actually, it was two minutes after the scheduled start time when he asked if he could join. I was very happy to wait for him. Company is good.

Today’s rowing session was a half-marathon scheduled online about 24 hours in advance.  The most popular online rowing sessions seem to be those that are 30 minutes or up to 10,000 meters.  A half marathon seems to be much less popular.

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This is a screenshot of today’s rowing session before it started. I didn’t start precisely on time, and it turned out to be a good thing because two minutes after starting time, another rower logged in to the Oarbits site and asked if he could join.

I titled today’s online rowing session as “I will finish if you will”.  By the time it was scheduled to begin, nobody else had joined it.  Like I said, the half marathon isn’t one of the more popular distance for online rowing.  Just check the Oarbits site for yourself, on a daily basis, to confirm that assertion. (After you go to the Oarbits web page, click the Schedule tab or the Results tab, to look at the collection of times and distance rowed online.)  One of the most popular online rowing sessions seems to be 30 minutes.

If you look closely at the first two screenshots above, you might notice that RowPro 5 for the Mac is doing something very weird with the characters of the Canada rower’s name. Apparently it can’t handle some of the letter accents used by those who spell their names in other than standard American/English/British spelling. Hopefully, this WordPress blog thing can handle them.  The other rower spelled his name André Doré, according to the way it is displayed in Oarbits results as you can see in the screenshot immediately below this paragraph:

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I’ve never rowed with him before, to my best recollection but it would be nice to row with him again because he not only rowed 18,000 meters with me, but we kept apace with each other the entire time and he finished the entire half-marathon.  So today’s rowing session, in contrast to yesterday’s, was a finished symphony. Good company.

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Finish screen for today’s half marathon.
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Report for today’s half marathon.
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RowPro charts for today’s half marathon.
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Concept 2 online logbook graphs for today’s half marathon.

Happy rowing to you.