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BOSTON—If you looked at a program for yesterday’s C.R.A.S.H.-B’s indoor rowing competition, which displays headlines such as “I Was Bigfoot’s Erg Slave” and “Puce is the Hot Winter Color,” you might have thought that the event was a joke. But while the program emphasizes the event’s fun spirit, don’t let it fool you: the competition is fierce and attracts the best rowers in the world...
...captain, no less, fresh from a second straight national championship—he’d have gotten it through his head. That he, if anyone, would stop discussing Jesus and rowing, like he was on his way to worship and not to toil on an erg...
...erg causes people to throw up so frequently that it doesn’t even turn heads anymore. At the C.R.A.S.H Bs—a nationwide competition every year conducted entirely on ergs—McDaniel once had to erg in his best friend and teammate, captain Alex Chastain-Chapman's, vomit...
...went right before me and vomited all over the erg,” said McDaniel with a laugh. “And they didn’t have time to clean it up so they put this catnip type stuff down and I had to erg right in that…Alex is what we call a puker...
...erg and just passed out. It wasn’t a big deal. I woke up two minutes later,” said Binkley, who then continued on to what really bothered him about the episode. “But I lost my watch. I think someone stole...