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I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
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We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was…
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Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a…
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Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport…
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The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ...
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Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound…
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[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they…
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Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of…
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Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.
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Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than…
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For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had…
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As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone. The verdict…
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We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was…
— Stefan Kieszling
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Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other,…
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In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt…
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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.…
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers.…
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Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now…
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs…
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