Lots of progress today and some excellent workouts - had a great discussion with the senior leadership group over lunch at the Trinity Restaurant as well. We're trying out a number of mechanical changes in our tanks to try and standardize the work and make it more repeatable over time. At this point we have 20 Model D and E ergometers in our tanks and another 24 ergometers in our slide center. The number of training options are really increasing!My fitness I class did a great workout today on the ergometer and a couple of other activities that were awesome to watch - a couple of guest students joined in and I was surprised to learn that they had never even been in the tank room or known that it existed! It just goes to show you that the general student population just may not understand exactly what rowers do or even where they do it! Anyway, the two guest students, a junior woman and a senior man went head to head and finished absolutely tied despite doing exactly the same distance and type of exercise. I thought it was tremendously inspiring! Neither had any rowing experience prior to today's workout.
Looking forward to the Vespoli Conference in Philadelphia on Sunday - should be interesting to hear coaches talk about their successes in the past year.
