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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...
...raced two single-file pieces at 26 to 28 s.p.m.; the first from just above the B.U. bridge to North Beacon and the second from North Beacon back to Anderson bridge. Due to the inexperience of the other 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...
...COXSWAIN Steers the boat using a rudder, executes race plan, encourages rowers...
...HARVARD CRIMSON: How many years have you raced in the Head? You're the cox? SUJIT RAMAN: Yeah, I'm the lightweight cox. This is my third Head. It's funny, some people describe the Head of the Charles as a coxswain's race because the river is so windy that sometimes it comes down to how aggressive you are, how ballsy you are, on the course. And, it's a fun race especially from a coxswain's perspective because you also have to be talking for twenty minutes-- ANGUS MACLAURIN: More like fourteen! SR: Well, yeah! But, right...