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-everything you do is “in 2…”
-the phrase “cox box” doesn’t make you giggle
-you believe the world wouldn’t exist without spandex
-you only recognize your friends from behind
-you believe all authority figures carry a megaphone
-you sit in class leaning to your rigger
-half your body is bigger than the other
-you blame bad moods on “the set”
-your friends need a rowing translator to decipher your language
-you think sleeping late is waking up at 8:30.
-when you sit down in class, you look for the tie-in shoes.
-you constantly check the tightness of nuts in handrails, chairs, door handles, etc.
-you think gloves are for sissies, but a nice pair of poogies is really stylin’
-you bring up the beauty of the dawn, and people give you blank stares
-you know more than 4 brands of porta-johns by name.
-you give directions to a friend and say “turn to port” instead of “take a left.”
-you dress and undress one-handed so you don’t have to take your hand off the oar.
-every time you sit in a chair you are mildly surprised to discover that it doesn’t slide back and forth.

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Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on river, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water. The sport can be both recreational, focusing on learning the techniques required, and competitive where overall fitness plays a large role. It is also an Olympic sport.

Rowing is one of the original sports in the modern Olympic Games.

Eight-oared shells are about 60-feet long - that’s 20 yards on a football field.

Rowing was the first intercollegiate sport contested in the United States. The first rowing race was between Harvard and Yale in 1852.

Physiologically, rowers are superb examples of physical conditioning. Cross-country skiers and long distance speed skaters are comparable in terms of the physical demands the sport places on the athletes.

The first rowing club in the U.S. was the Detroit Boat Club, founded in 1839.

The first amateur sport organization was a rowing club - Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Navy, founded in 1858.

The first national governing body for a sport in the United States was for rowing. Founded as the National Association for Amateur Oarsmen in 1872, it was changed in 1982 to the United States Rowing Association.

Yale College founded the first collegiate boat club in the U.S. in 1843.

FISA, the first international sports federation, was founded in 1892.

Physiologists claim that rowing a 2,000-meter race - equivalent to 1.25 miles - is equal to playing back-to-back basketball games.

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