Here’s a quote from this talk that I really liked:

“In rowing, the transcendent moment is called “swing” and those of us who have rowed for lifetimes have maybe experienced swing three or four times. It doesn’t happen very often but when it does it really is a different dimension. It’s where all eight bodies in the boat are absolutely in sync and every stroke is as perfect as it can be and then all of a sudden the race is over and you don’t remember anything about the race except that you ended up two boat lengths ahead. It’s an extraordinary kind of experience, really quite an oxymoron, it’s a physical out of body experience or a mental out of body experience. It’s part of that transcendence.”