Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psyche themselves for the race different rowers have different styles. "You go out quietly, put your boat in the water and hammer it down there. It's not like football, you know, where you yell and scream and bang your head on a locker," explained Hugh Silk, a freshman rower who will miss the remainder of the season because of a back injury...
Harvard's first boat went out with a stroke rate somewhere between 40 and 42 strokes per minute. Brown began somewhere over 45, a rate which generally lasts about 20 strokes (or 200 meters) into the race at which point each team settles at around 36. "They were way too high for themselves," first boat coxswain Travis Metz said...
Brown focuses on keeping its rate high. Harvard focuses on power, according to Silk. "The race was basically over when we took our standard power 20 just after the 1000 meter mark," Metz said...
...coxswain decides along with the stroke, who rows in the first seat facing the cox, where to keep the stroke rate depending on how the race is going and how the rowers feel. In Saturday's race, Hugh Evans rowed portside stroke. The stroke has to be smart, in order to sense when members of the boat can be pushed, and also aggressive enough to know when they must be pushed...
...heard going into the race that Brown had a very fast crew and expected to beat us," West said. "They had their boat together four weeks before the race. If we push as hard as we can every practice, we're not going to get any slower. There's nothing to do but improve...