learn to row

I joined my high school rowing team because my mother encouraged me to. At first I hated it because I wasn’t very good, but once I got the hang of it, I fell in love and now I’m the president of the rowing club at my college.

This summer I am going to be taking rowing lessons so that I can participate in the junior team for Fall and Spring. I hope to join a rowing team when I go to a university, so I am glad that I am starting early :)

IM VERY EXCITED. I have never done any serious sports and I think this will be good for me. Will help me gain social skills, become physically fit, and will give me something to take pride in.

I want to take classes, as soon as I can figure out when.

I might get back into it; at the Farmer’s Market this weekend I talked to some people in the club as they are having a free-for-all this next weekend on the reservoir.

I just got a bug in my bonnet about wanting to row and so I found a beginners’ course and did it… much fun! And now I’m joining a team… hurrah.

so i count this goal as completed.
what i want next is to learn to row in skif.
this summer, i hope!

They don’t seem to have a rowing team anymore. And buying a rowing machine looks like it’s going to be way too expensive for my liking.

If I get the opportunity to do this when I’m abroad I’ll certainly jump on it, but I want to focus on more basic goals right now.

instead of it i will go erging

I learned to row in college and participated at D1 level. You can learn to destroy your own limits, put team before self and get in kick-ass shape.

rowing is amazing. i’d always been a fairly sporty person and never thought i would ever fall in love with physical activity after trying out all the basketball, lacrosse, soccer – never feel that first adrenaline rush from the first time feeling physical exertion. but rowing was so new to me, i had never experienced something so exciting. you work parts of your body that many other athletes don’t. it’s a true exercise in teamwork, as well, and it just… it feels good.

i might add i’m a sweep rower, so i’m only clutching onto one oar, but it’s for a 30ft wooden boat so i guess it’s a bit different. ;) either way, it’s addictive.