GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY ROWING ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

After a fun day at the beach yesterday, we followed with a great day of training. The morning started at 6:45 when I had a great breakfast of cereal. I got ready for practice and the team headed outside ready to go. We ran from the townhouse where we are staying to the boathouse. Our first practice today was in pairs. I was in the œTed . We launched and began doing stationary drills. Three bobs to hands away, Three bobs to the catch, etc. We then did drive drills from one end of the lake to the next. Our focus was putting the tip of the blade into the water and backing in the blade. Once we arrived across the lake we spun around and did back it down drills before transitioning into steady state and headed toward the dock to get ready for our second row of the day... Our second row today was in eights. We launched and did a quick warmup before we began a 2×30 minute ski jumps around the lake by sixes. We began each piece at a 14 and rose it two beats every two minutes. We switched a..

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