February 2012
33 posts
rowsbeforehoes:
Rowing in London
By: Paige...
wonderstrucklife:
revelation:
you can be crying at the end of a 2k because you’re split is bad
or you can be crying at the end of a 2k because you hurt, but your split rocks.
take your pick.
xtinaprostitutionwhore:
“Rowing sucks. There is absolutely no way to justify what rowers do. We do it anyway though. We’re all insane. We’re all irrational. We’re all probably going to need extensive therapy when we’re older.”
“When we gather for the happiest week in all the year, it is the brotherhood of...”
– Sir Theodore Cook (via half-marathonsforlife)
littlerowerthings:
rowing is a lot like regina george
fifty percent of the time I’m talking about it, and the other half of the time I’m praying for someone to bring it up so I can talk about it more
How to: Pull a 2k test →
Ok, here we are after the turn of the year, when most crews start testing over 2000m in preparation for sprint season a few short months away.
The 2k test became a staple in the rowing world in 1995, when theCharles River All Star Has Beens changed the format of their little event from 2500m to 2k. Everyone can blame these clowns for the invention of the dreaded erg test in 1980. They thought...
coxswainproblems:
Laaaatttteeerrr
Oh no. Valentine's day is coming up.
rowsbeforehoes:
And I fail at row-mance. The only sexy outfit I own is my unisuit. The only fun thing I know how to do is row. The only people I know are rowers.
Oh god.
pain makes us make bad decisions, fear of pain can...
oarwhore4sure:
you wear dresses, we wear spandex
you have soft hands, we have man hands
you have friends, we have crew
you have make up, we have zinc
you have fake tan, we have tan lines
you have a car, we have a boat
you have vodka, we have powerade
YOU HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE, WE HAVE ROWING.
Paige Padilla: ⚓ Rows Before Hoes ⚓: Measured in... →
rowsbeforehoes:
On the water… There is another world. I can sit in my boat and look out across the lake and know, deep in my heart, that the world I live in during these water practices, ends at the shore, but that’s okay. Because right now, during this practice, I am in another world.
To my left, I watch…