2024 Spring Training

TJA1

The first coached session of Spring 2024 is on Tuesday night. We've been going through a "Winter Reset" with our new coaching staff. There have only been a few takers for the reset, I'm hoping more sign up for the Spring or it's going to be quite lonely. Our Program director indicated that we had about 20 sign ups so far. Fingers crossed.

One of the other "Usual Suspects" is my mixed 2x partner so it looks like we'll be rowing together through SE Regionals. My objective(s) for this season...

Defend my SE Championship. Easier said than done because I only won because the fast guys didn't show up! To defend I'm going to have to drop about 8 sec off my OTW splits - so I have work to do. I'll be talking to one of the coaches about weights and getting some additional (cost) 1 on 1 OTW coaching, between the 3 program sessions per week.
Compete in more of the Mixed 2x races. Prove that 7/8 at Nationals wasn't a fluke! LOL!

Those are the only two things I can control. Beyond the above I'm hoping the Coaches put me in some other boats that I can help make fast.

Timothy_Moores

Are those 20 signups all in masters or are they spread across the entire club, juniors included?

I wish there was a little more collaboration between the squads here, masters men and masters women both seem to just do their own thing with almost no consideration for mixed crews.

TJA1

Timothy_Moores Those 20 are just Masters. I haven't heard how the juniors recruiting is going although I know they have some new recruits beyond the "returning class". We also have 3 (I think) signups for an adult Learn to Row later this month! I can't believe anyone would sign up for a LTR in JANUARY! Holy smoke! They're either very hardy, or very stupid or ultra keen. I hope the latter!

I do like the way this club integrates the Masters program. Although, I think there is a desire among one group of women (The Mean Girls boat) to only row with their clique, the coaches aren't having it. They are always split up in the erg practices. The mean girls stroke gets to sit next to the Old Man's stroke! LOL!

TJA1

So Spring Training will be moving OTW next week after the “spring forward” time change this weekend. As a group we’ve made quite a lot of progress. We now have more Masters than ergs, so each practice were divided into 2 “boats”. One group ergs first while the other does weights. I can see (and hear) that we row together much better than we used to so that bodes well for when we get OTW.

The course will be installed this weekend as we are hosting the first College regatta a week from this weekend. So once we start OTW there’ll be bouys to navigate.😁. It’s almost time to wash the dust off Hudson and see if I can translate the training greater flexibility into better length at the catch.

Sorry I haven’t been much of contributor - I’ve jiggered with the email notifications (as I wasn’t getting any) so hopefully I’ll get notifications in the future and be around a bit more.