May Day with the Regulator

Guest stars Steph at cox, Kaela at 3, HannahM at bow.  Kaela watch the hand heights.  Match to what Blaze does, even when the boat off set.  Mel, good change on the digging, not seeing it here.



After I stopped shooting, the boat shifted up a bit to 26-28 and found a great rhythm that lasted for about a mile.  I'm not going to pretend this is perfect rowing, but when a crew finds "swing" like this, just hold onto that feeling as long as you can.

A further word on that subject--

My father was an avid golfer.  He loved the game and I had absolutely no understanding of why, until my senior year of high school rowing.  Dad kept souvenirs of "perfect moments" in his golf life.  A hole in one ball, signed by his friends he was with that day, decorated a wall in our home.  A ball he shot a double eagle (in the hole from second shot of a par-5) sat on a little pedestal.  I've heard golf described as chasing perfection.  Players will strive for years and decades for the perfect moment; thousands of swings distill down to one perfect shot, when the player's swing is exactly what they want, contact with the ball is exact and the shot lands exactly where they want.  

In rowing, we strive for the same sort of moment.  It doesn't happen often.  I can count the number of times I've felt that on one hand.  It wasn't always in a race.  I hope the crew in the Regulator got a little taste of that perfect moment.