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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves.

Barry S. Strauss

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  Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that’s the ergometer.

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  The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport – there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age – stirred his blood.

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  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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  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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  The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

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  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.

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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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  There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.

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