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When I Drive Over a Bridge and See People Rowing

I’m like…

#MY NON ROWER FRIENDS THINK I AM INSANE #any time i pass a big body of water #or a small one lets be real #i just look for rowers #once i saw rowers and i screamed #actually that has happened more then once

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date idea: taking a nice walk while playing pokemon go and stopping by for ice cream after

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Anyone want to be a pair with me and go catch Pokemon on the water 😘

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or a double.

#uP FOR THAT PLEASE AND THANK

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Injury Is

Injury is self inflicted Injury is pushing too hard too often Loving your sport too hard too often Injury is not glamorous Injury is wobbling out of a light practice What you used to kill, you now barely survive Injury is realizing you need to stop Halfway through your warmup Injury is dreaming about PRs and records And wondering if you’ll ever get one again Injury is falling down and getting kicked every time you try to get back up Is going to the gym every time you try to get back up Is going to practice every time you try to get back up Is failing every time you try to get back up Injury is never ending Injury is knowing you’ll never be able to make up for lost time What seconds did you lose in the days, weeks, months you were away Injury is cruel irony Imposing limitations on the athletes who thought themselves most invincible Injury is second guessing needing that time out Because breaks used to be optional Because stopping used to be optional And it was option you always ignored Injury is missing moments of your sport you never noticed Nostalgia over the mundane because even that seems lost to you Injury is a promise to yourself To never forget those moments again Injury is a self renewal of your vow to your sport A new marriage of passion with humility An acceptance of what you can do And what you can’t But injury, you know, is only inspiring if you recover And every day you try to say to yourself, when you recover When I recover You better watch out.

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gosh mom I don’t work out to be “cute” and “petite” I work out to have legs that are strong enough to crush the souls of 10,000 men

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that´s the spirit

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Those random people who erg at the Y

They’re like

And I’m like

But inside I’m really like

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hello this is ur stroke speaking

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*when the cox let’s stroke seat borrow the mic for an important message*

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*changes out of practice spandex and into relaxing spandex*

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Dear Coxswain

You are a respected and important member of the crew.

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Will of a rower

As a philosophy major who aims to specialize my masters in human free will and addiction, I have formed my opinion to believe that people do have will power. My coach always states that rowing is 90% mental and 10% physical, but I disagree. Rowing is 10% physical, 10%mental, and 80% pure exercised Will Power. When a rower gets on that erg, or gets in a boat, they fully understand what is going to happen. When they arrive at the breaking point, the point when medical professionals declare is the same as two full NBA games back to back, there is an inner strength that is not mental at all. Instead of listening to the mind, which is screaming to stop-demanding that you quit breaking your body in such an unnatural way, the rower grabs a part of their Will deep inside of them; this indomitable part of a person is the same part that allows super human feats to occur…the same part that gives a rower the power to go beyond what should be physically possible. So when that rower is pulling their last few strokes of their race and they are in so much pain they can’t even cry out, understand that they are fueled on the part of a human being that few people are ever able to even touch. That’s not the end though. No, for you see unlike any drug man can make the Will of a human is infinite, and the power achieved from it doesn’t ever become less of a thrill. This means that every time the rower grabs hold of it and feels the power and the success that comes from their Will, they become hooked a little more. That’s why rowers keep going, keep rowing and erging. That’s why the pain doesn’t stop them, us, you, me; that’s why we take every stroke as if it’s our last, not because we think it may actually be our last, but because the power of the human Will is only attainable once the body passes it’s breaking point. Thus, every stroke passed the breaking point is another shot of this infinitely suppliable drug that is freely accessible, as long as the rower can reach the point of no return.