Tag: river city rowing club
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My First Head of the Charles
For this HOCR evaluation, I decided to break down the course into sections and reflect on each section because it was such a steering-focused regatta. If you want to check out my other evaluations, you can read the HOA 2016 one here, HOP 2018 one here, and Gold Rush one 2019 here. As much as…
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Not Your Race Packet – Head of the Port 2021
Head of the Port spectators, racers, and coaches from out of town, where you at! Here are some coffee, food, and bar recommendations from me. This is not a complete list of every food business in the area (Don’t you have an app for that?). These are the places I visit most often near my…
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Nine Mistakes I Made as a Novice Coxswain – Part Two
Continuing from yesterday’s part one post… Not apologizing after doing something wrong First, what mistakes can coxswains make during a practice? Here’s a few from my list (no promise they won’t happen again): Forgetting the meeting spot after the launch, counting extra strokes, confusing port/starboard, confusing bow/stern, cutting into someone else’s lane, making the team…
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Nine Mistakes I Made as a Novice Coxswain – Part One
Novice season #1: My first time coxing was in 2012. I was a junior in college and coxed for a masters team. I was barely getting the basics but left the team after only a few months to study abroad in Morocco! Those few months were enough for me to always dream of coming back.…
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Head of the Port
Before the sun came up, a party bus rolled into the designated parking lot and picked up sleepy parents, rowers, coxswains, and coaches and drove them through the dark to the race venue. I coxed our advanced women’s 8+ at Head of the Port last weekend. Before the race, I was helping control boat traffic…
Coxswain's Log 