It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

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It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

Barry S. Strauss

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Intelligent

There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

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There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
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Cerebral Rowing
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.

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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
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Rowing
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.
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Race Winning
The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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Games Humility Taught
Ergometer is Greek for ‘work meter’
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Greek Meter Rowing
It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Intelligent
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Figure Hardest
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout.
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Eight Moving Workout
Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.

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Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.
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Brine Dark Foam Gushed Mighty Terribly
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Moving Simple
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying.
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Baseball Wings Workout
You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.
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Boat Feel Grit Toughness
There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.

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There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.
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Guts Take Word
As if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

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As if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.
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Aerobic Baseball Combine Pterodactyl
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction.
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Hard Winning
In college, I was an editor on the student daily… To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.
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It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

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