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SEC Rowing Championship - how do you watch rowing?
Posted on 1/29/25 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 1/29/25 at 10:07 pm
At last. 2025 will see the first SEC Rowing Championshipat (at Oak Ridge TN with all 4 teams competing: TN, AL, TX, and OK).
I'd like some rowing fan out there to tell me how you watch rowing. Watch the start and then.....? Or go to the finish line and wait? Or run along the river bank to follow the race?
I'd like to watch this first SEC championship but I don't know how.
I'd like some rowing fan out there to tell me how you watch rowing. Watch the start and then.....? Or go to the finish line and wait? Or run along the river bank to follow the race?
I'd like to watch this first SEC championship but I don't know how.
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Posted on 1/29/25 at 10:21 pm to TheShmoo
Put on your arm floaties and get in the water, but don't wear them like ankle bracelets or else you may drown.
Posted on 1/29/25 at 10:27 pm to TheShmoo
Posted on 1/29/25 at 10:32 pm to TheShmoo
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how do you watch rowing
Like I watch men's gymnastics. I just find anything else that is on and watch that.
Posted on 1/29/25 at 11:03 pm to TheShmoo
Dilaudid is the only reasonable answer.
Posted on 1/29/25 at 11:11 pm to TheShmoo
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how do you watch rowing?
Party barge?
Posted on 1/30/25 at 12:04 am to TheShmoo
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I'd like some rowing fan out there to tell me how you watch rowing. Watch the start and then.....? Or go to the finish line and wait? Or run along the river bank to follow the race?
Finish line. They race in a straight line so you see them coming towards you.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 7:57 am to TheShmoo
Vodka is the best choice.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:02 am to Herman Frisco
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:13 am to TheShmoo
that's all I got
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:18 am to bigDgator
bigDG has lost control of this forum
Harry rex is the only answer to fix this mess
Harry rex is the only answer to fix this mess
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:20 am to Herman Frisco
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Herman Frisco
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:24 am to TheShmoo
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I'd like some rowing fan out there to tell me how you watch rowing. Watch the start and then.....? Or go to the finish line and wait? Or run along the river bank to follow the race?
Watch at the finish. You aren't going to be able to run along with the race, they're moving too fast.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 9:00 am to TheShmoo
With Stevie Wonder.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 9:19 am to TheShmoo
Interesting that this is growing in the Southeast. I rowed for many years and back in the day there were a few high school level clubs that split out of adult rowing clubs in Austin and Dallas.
I know the sport has really grown but back then, like Lacrosse, it was mainly a northeastern thing.
Oklahoma City hosts a great crew event in its downtown area annually.
I know the sport has really grown but back then, like Lacrosse, it was mainly a northeastern thing.
Oklahoma City hosts a great crew event in its downtown area annually.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 10:08 am to TheShmoo
There is one of the biggest, may be the biggest, rowing (crew?) events in the world outside of the Olympics in Augusta Georgia every fall. I tried to watch it from my jon boat about 10 years ago and damn near got arrested. How am I too blame for damage done by my wake to a damned boat with about 1/8th of an inch of freeboard with 8 pretty good sized ole boys paddling the boat and 1 more screaming at them to paddle it faster? I am pretty certain them old boys were gonna swamp that boat with or without the wake from mine...
The police were torn between chasing me and fishing those 18 folks from the Savannah River (there were 2 of them damned boats and they did not have an inch of freeboard between them). Luckily for me they figured it was better to save 18 than arrest 1 so I managed to get away. I still don't know how I was supposed to be responsible for them idiots overloading that damned boat to that point....anybody who has spent anytime at all around a boat knows you got to have more than 1/8th of an inch of freeboard with only 1 person in the boat....when you have more than one you need a pile of freeboard....
The police were torn between chasing me and fishing those 18 folks from the Savannah River (there were 2 of them damned boats and they did not have an inch of freeboard between them). Luckily for me they figured it was better to save 18 than arrest 1 so I managed to get away. I still don't know how I was supposed to be responsible for them idiots overloading that damned boat to that point....anybody who has spent anytime at all around a boat knows you got to have more than 1/8th of an inch of freeboard with only 1 person in the boat....when you have more than one you need a pile of freeboard....
Posted on 1/30/25 at 10:09 am to Ingeniero
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Watch at the finish. You aren't going to be able to run along with the race, they're moving too fast.
Them bastards can't keep up with my 60 HP duck boat...I know for a certainty.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 10:34 am to Ingeniero
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Watch at the finish. You aren't going to be able to run along with the race, they're moving too fast.
It is actually pretty interesting. Elite distance runners would beat the best ever men's 8 crew over 2000 meters rather easily.
If a regular dude planned on outrunning them though... you better plan on running about a 4:20 mile and then holding that pace another 500 meters.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 10:42 am to TheShmoo
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I'd like some rowing fan out there to tell me how you watch rowing. Watch the start and then.....? Or go to the finish line and wait? Or run along the river bank to follow the race?
In Oak Ridge, there is a walking path along the edge of the river and a grassy area near the finish line. Go to the finish line and wait is the best course of action in my experience.
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