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Assumptions people make of rowing: 1. It’s easy. 😂 Just ask James Corden 2. It’s expensive ❌ Love Rowing and various clubs including mine, Ross Rowing Club, have set up free or very low cost sessions to welcome young people, people with disabilities, people who are unemployed or low waged. 3. It’s posh 🙈Now then, depends who you meet. Is it egalitarian? Historically it was an able bodied men’s sport. With effort that got moved to a men’s, women’s and children’s sport, including adaptive rowing at all levels. Historically it was predominantly privately educated people because rowing was taught there. Nowadays thanks to a clear focus by Love Rowing and British Rowing, on inclusion, including helping state schools and community clubs to widen participation, we are shifting the dial. The more people see and hear of people in their communities loving their rowing, the more they feel welcomed and at home in our beautiful sport.

Taking a leap paid off! Will sent a cold email to the Cal coach and got invited to Junior Day. It was eye-opening to experience life as a student athlete at Cal firsthand. Never underestimate the power of taking that first step! #mystrivepath #studentathlete #calbears #juniordaysuccess #swimmingtips #swimmertips #collegepreparation #collegeadmission #collegepreptips #collegehelp #collegeadmissions

What we used to do can inform what we need to do. Through my lens on the Board of Para Rowing Foundation, in this Seth Godin blog I see an important concept for the decision makers in Rowing to support a sport that moves backwards by design to move forwards with intent… #Rowing #ParaRowing Apply this to your industry. What do you and your peers need to do?

Some of the most common errors in rowing have the easiest fix. Sitting correctly on the seat! Master Instructor Cassi Niemann explains in this video: https://bit.ly/3bL2Js7 Want more help to get set up to row? Download our free before-you-row checklist: https://bit.ly/3FvOFkL

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If you're keen to follow along my Journey to Par, consider Subscribing to my nascent YouTube channel. And Like the video if you... ummm... like the video. 😎 ParTeeGuys is an experiment in applying product management techniques to my personal game of golf and exploring the parallels between the two. e.g. 18 holes of golf can be thought of as simply 4.5 hours of problem-solving to unlock value with a clear metric for success. Research, deliver, learn, adapt to changing conditions, repeat. Inherently iterative and yet never quite the same each time. It is by definition agile-adaptive, with rather clear micro and macro measures of progress or success. No? Yes? Maybe? Where does the analogy work and where does it not? Is there any value in one of the practices informing or improving the other?

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Even today, my Dad, David Plekenpol, who rowed at Dartmouth College in the early 80's, breaks down his tasks, big or small, into the 4 segments of a 2000M race. During my four years rowing at Loyola Marymount University, I began to understand why, and soon adopted my Dad's approach. The first 500M is pure adrenaline. The anticipation of all the training has led to this moment, head to head with other oarsman who have worked equally hard. We all understand what this race will come down to... who wants it more. The second 500M is all about establishing rhythm. Settling into your race pace as you are now fully into the endeavor. No going back, only forward. If you had a great start, and pulled out in front, you are pressing your legs off of the footboard as if it is the backs of your opponents... keep them where you can see them- that means you are head. The third 500M is where you start to soul search. Your body, with all of the built up lactic acid in your muscles, is starting to feel like it is on fire, while your lungs begin to feel charred by the crisp air coming in with every breath. You are now pulling for your brothers in the boat. Your coaches on the shore. Your family at home. The third 500M is where boys become men, where competitors become champions, it is where the guts of a person either lead to their glory or to their despair. Entering the final 500M, you have to leave everything behind you. There is no more race after this. It is time to "empty the tank". There is nothing more disheartening than the feeling that you could have given more. The story from the movie Gattaca always spoke to me in these instances- When the genetically imperfect brother defeats his genetically perfected brother, in the competition of who can swim the furthest out to sea, when asked how he did it, he replied, "I didn't save anything for the swim back." This is heart, and this is the true victory of all sports... to know that you gave your all to something, win or lose, you stepped into the arena and died to who you used to be, emerging as a new person each and every time... more acquainted with the depths of the passion, love, compassion, and fearlessness within you than you had ever known before. I am grateful for my time rowing, and it is an absolute treat to see the US Men's Four back on top in this Olympics.

“We MAKE our own LUCK!” “That’s right. And the more I PRACTICE , the luckier I get.” - 1961 book “The Devil to Pay” - “People MAKE their own LUCK by putting out everything they’ve got, and the more they put out, the more luck they have.” - Ethel Merman 1955 - “The MORE you KNOW, the more LUCK you have.“ - “The Burman: His Life and Notions” dated 1896 - “The HARDER he WORKS the LUCKIER he gets.” - Walter Winchell 1949 - https://lnkd.in/eDPvnJm6 ““The HARDER you WORK, the LUCKIER You Get.”” “This means that if you put in the effort, you're more likely to have things go your way. Not that luck isn't important, but hard work usually gets you to the point where luck can even come into play.” - “It turns out that luck plays a surprisingly big role in success. Some of the most successful people in the world are where they are because they’ve been lucky enough to have the right opportunities come their way. Of course, that’s not to say that hard work isn’t important. The fact is, the harder you work, the luckier you’re likely to get.” https://lnkd.in/ejHhqEbP Source- original post Read all my posts #MariusPreston