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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.

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.
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Hard Night Stroke Winning Work
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
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
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
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
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 College Editors Rose
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
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
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 Men Sea
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
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 Individual Moving Sports Workout
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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Attention Imagination Sports
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 is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
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Call Cerebral Place Rowing
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 Men Mighty Terribly

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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