Post Rowing Coffee

Today Sunday got up for rowing at 5:00am.  Later than the usual 4:15 rise.  Today we met at 5:45.

We started with a warm up.  I am very keen to get our crew in the habit of warming up.  We have a rotating door of injuries and it would be good to reduce those.

The warm up I am doing basically starts with a short jog.  The focus is on keeping the back vertical to start with.  Then we do a few leg swings and lastly we end up with some torso movement. 

Greg Carroll came and coached.  To me coaching is essential to technique improvement and Greg has great attention to that.  Son Chris subbed in at the last minute and rowed 2 seat.  I took up bow seat.  Its kind of nice to sit up there and get a view of the crew but cripes it is hard.

Our crew was
Bow: me
2: Son Chris.
3: Bart
4: Rob
5:  Peter Hastie
6: Jeff Clark
7: Anthony
8: Gary
Cox: Emma
Coach: Greg

On the water exercises included:
Placing the oars in the water at the finish and then pushing up to the catch and turning round and taking a stroke.
Square blade rowing in 4's

After rowing the obligatory coffee at Albertos