St. Louis Indoor Rowing Championships, February 2

[magnuson]

St. Louis Indoor Rowing Championships 2/02/08
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he 15th annual St. Louis Indoor Rowing Championships will be held on February 2, 2008 at the Washington University athletic complex starting at 8:00 AM. There will be multiple different categories depending on age and experience levels. Medals will be awarded to the top finisher in each. The race will be for a distance of 2000 meters on Concept II Model D Indoor Rowers. Anyone is welcome to compete even if you have never rowed before!

The categories will be as follows:

Open Junior Girls, Open Junior Boys

Lightweight Junior Girls, Lightweight Junior Boys

Novice Junior Girls, Novice Junior Boys

Open Collegiate Women, Open Collegiate Men

Lightweight Collegiate Women, Lightweight Collegiate Men

Novice Collegiate Women, Novice Collegiate Men

Open Women (19-29), Open Men (19-29)

Masters Women (30-39), Masters Men (30-39)

Senior Women (40-49), Senior Men (40-49)

Veteran Women (50-59), Veteran Men (50-59)

Veteran Women B (60+), Veteran Men B (60+)

Cox woman, Cox Men


Lightweight divisions defined by 135 max for women, 165 max for men. Weigh-ins will take place the morning of the race.

Events will start at 8 AM with the junior girls events followed by the junior boys events. The Collegiate, Open and Masters events will follow.

Registration fee is $10.00 and is available through Regatta Central.

Brand new Model D (or E) ergometers can be purchased at the time of the indoor race for a discounted price of $800.00 (usual price is $850.00 plus the $50-75 shipping). We will even put the ergs in your car for you!

Any questions or comments, contact John Mason at 314-913-6125 or at [e-mail].

[Laura]

Maybe I'll see y'all there in Feb! Is it bad if I begin training after I get back from Christmas break?

[dowbiggin]

Laura, find an erg now!

Cheers,

Rebecca D.

p.s. You think I'm short, but I'm 5'6''. That's not short at all.

[Alan]

As pointed out in the original post, registration for the event is through www.regattacentral.com . Click on "Regattas" and a list of upcoming events pop up. St. Louis is at the top and click on it and you can get information on the event and register for it. The deadline for registration is Jan 31. You can also see who is already registered for the regatta. Not suprisingly, the early registrants are Mens-Masters, who apparently live for this shit.

Pick your category carefully. If you are a novice and a masters, consider rowing the novice category if you stand a better chance of medalling. We might as well bring some hardware home

[Alan]

17 are registered in Men's Masters. Only one (Bear) in Men's Open.

[alanbrandenburg]

Anybody care to reflect on the races?

Except for a little over 7 minutes late in the morning, I had a great time. Thank you for your support during my race. I don't think that I could have gone harder and that was the result of encouragement I received, especially in the last ghastly quarter. I was totally drained and really just too tired to puke. This effort really is not notable in that everybody rowed as hard or harder and posted great results. As a group and individuals we can be proud of our band of rowers.

This isn't so much a culmination of work, as a beginning. The benefits of our training are showing. These times weren't possible in December! There is still time this winter (and I didn't think I would be saying this) to work on our 2K times and have an impromptu time trial in March. I'm afraid that I was trying to think of ways of knocking a few seconds in a few weeks.

[magnuson]

Fantastic races, everyone! We didn't just show up to participate; we competed! And Don won!
I believe Alan is making a great point. We're just getting started. If we keep working and if we maintain our positive attitude, our 2K times will most definitely drop. Like Jim was saying before we left Wash U: "I'm not down to seven minutes yet, but I'll get there." You know what? I believe he will get there.
For my part yesterday, though, I think I could use more than a ten-stroke warmup before starting a 2K. But I was having so much fun cheering on our crew I just couldn't find time to warm up!

[Stephanie Jensen]

Same here. And for those watching us cheer each other on, it was probably hard to believe we weren't an actual team. Great support from everyone, even though all of us did not PR. It made me excited to think that this is just the beginning...we have a whole season ahead of us and I can't wait to see where everyone will be by the end of it all. Good job !!!

[don]

I was disappointed to see "Unaffiliated" by all of our names because when we were there I felt like we were a team!

Even if we don't have matching uniforms, or a "boat" I think that the people in STL are aware SIU is building a crew!

[Laura]

Congratulations, team! Way to put SIU Crew on the map! Wish I could've been there (to cheer, not to compete ! Where are the results posted?

[alanbrandenburg]

The results finally got posted to www.row2k.com Go to "Results"