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If you can’t take criticism, you can’t reach your potential.
Megan Rapinoe Team USA Women's Soccer

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

The athlete’s anaerobic threshold, the point at which the body’s muscles have exhausted their oxygen store and start burning other fuel. For regular folks, reaching that threshold is quitting time; anaerobic work is 19 times harder than aerobic work. But rowing is all about harder. Elite rowers fire off the start at sprint speed — 53 strokes per minute. With 95 pounds of force on the blade end, each stroke is a weightlifter’s power clean. Rowers cross their anaerobic threshold with that first stroke. Then there are 225 more to the finish line.

There is no offseason. Some think there is a season for athletes to take breaks, but the real athletes learn to take it upon themselves to get better for the upcoming season with one goal in mind: beat the athletes that took breaks. Make running in snow worth something in the spring. Remember all those land workouts or erg pieces to help improve on goals. There is no offseason. just a part of the year to see who wants to win and go the extra mile and who doesn’t.

Earn your medals in the winter and collect them in the spring.

The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet, steady dignity that refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.

At the end of the day, it's still rowing. Focus on why you row and not why it hurts.

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

In rowing, as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.

The sacrifices we make over the long run are what lead us to victory. We all aspire to compete at the highest level but it should be known that the rush and charge of competitive racing can never be achieved without the determination and discipline that is required to get yourself out of bed each morning and commit to something worthwhile.

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