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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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

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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.
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Dark
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

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When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.
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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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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
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
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.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Boat Feel Grit Toughness
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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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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Postindustrial Practical Rowing Simple
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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Appear Editors
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
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
Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going – no, to go faster – when you have nothing left to give.
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Faster Nothing Take
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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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.
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Moving Simple
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
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Hard
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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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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Figure Hardest
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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