"In the first session you will be shown around the boathouse, introduced to the boats and equipment you’ll be using, shown the correct stroke and hopefully get your first experience in a boat on the water. You will be supported by your coach and by a number of enthusiastic club members, some of whom have come through the same Learn to Row introduction. By the end of the course our aim is for you to have grasped the basics of the correct stroke on and off the water, and have sufficient technique to enable you to row happily and safely on your own or in a crew with others.
Come dressed for the gym, but with an eye on the weather for when we go outside (if it looks like rain, bring a hat rather than an umbrella!). Also please bring a change of clothes in the unlikely event that you fall in. Statistics show that the most reliable way to fall in is to forget your spare kit!"
The weather forecast looks fine and warm so I'm hoping to stay warm...and dry.
My shoulders and arms were a little bit stiff yesterday after my exertions on the erg on Thursday. My daughter says that this stiffness was due to poor technique in pulling too much with my arms rather than pushing with my legs from the catch and into the drive phase of the stroke. I need to remember to keep my arms straight and my wrists flat. I think I was doing what she told me correctly and that the stiffness was just my body telling me that I am out of condition.
The stiffness had fully resolved by the time that I woke up at 6am today ready to take my daughter to the rowing club for her Saturday morning coaching session. I have spent the rest of today on my allotment. I have done a good six hours of hard grafting, digging, weeding and harvesting. Now my body aches as if it has done another four minutes on the ergo.
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