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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First day back after Sunday's disgusting defeat. I was back in stroke, although I guessed from the boat's lineup that it was going to be a technique row--skill and drill--without much pressure. Cool evening; the sun was setting as we docked and the coxswain was worried about being out on the Charles without a light on the boat. We did a lot of 6s work, some pause drills, slap drills. Then some 2 to 3 minute pieces at 2/3 to full pressure. The shoes in the boat were placed too high and we were rushing into...
...went upstream and did some 2/3, 3/4, full pieces, 22 to 24 strokes per minute. Beat the other crew pretty solidly on the first and third, and only marginally on the second piece, although we were helped by the other boat's inexperienced coxswain, whose creative steering maneuvers included running the boat up on the sandbank between Arsenal and North Beacon on the first piece. After practice they said they heard the skeg drag along the bottom, but it stayed attached...
...crew's coxswain, we started first both times so she could steer off our stern. On the first piece the other crew was clearly faster and we could see them catch up on the straight-aways and then fall back on the turns as our coxswain steered tighter. The boats were timed separately, and over the 26 minutes we lost by 12 seconds. However, on the 15-minute race back downstream we won by 19 seconds, making us the overall winners of the practice. The rhythm felt a little rushed at times and I wasn't always getting full compression...
Woke up at 7 a.m. for practice in our Head boat. We took out the Vespoli (the one with the sticky seats) and did some 2/3, 3/4, full pressure work down to the bottom of the Basin and back up to the Northeastern boathouse...
...Front end of the boat...