Rowing on the Thames

I just rowed on the Thames for the first time! Add that to the long list of training sites from over the years. We went out in a 4+ , with Sean, Hubert, Kevin, myself and a coxswain from Cambridge named Arav. We went down the boat race course in a head wind, along the English version of boathouse row, past Fulham F.C., under the Hammersmith bridge all the way to Emmanuel Boat Club, about 11k out and back. We had a little time to look around the LRC boathouse, and wow is it cool. So many tributes to past rowers and coaches, in the form of pictures, plaques, oars, and even a boat, line the walls. There's a full on bar upstairs, a typical thing in English boathouses I'm told. Not a bad tradition. You can see the age in the locker and training rooms and the bay, but the boats aren't have bad. We got to take out an empacher, my first time in one, which was pretty exciting, but to me it seemed just like any other boat; just get in and row.

Rowing on the Thames tide way, another item checked off the bucket list. Next up, swimming in it!