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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

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.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Hard Night Stroke Winning Work
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
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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Ability Faster Inside Nothing Take
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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Lifting Pain Thinking Weight
Ergometer is Greek for ‘work meter’
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Greek Meter Rowing
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 Endurance Pterodactyl Weight
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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Alive Figure Hardest Perspective Thinking
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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Intelligent Sea Sports
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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Blood Little Postindustrial Practical Rowing Simple
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

Dark Men Sea
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.
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Art Fire Hard Work
There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.
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Guts Magic Take Word
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
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Call Cerebral Place Rowing
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 Mental Obstacle Toughness
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.
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Giving Race Strategy Winning
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.
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Dawn Race Rivers

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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