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2000 C.R.A.S.H.-B. The Untold Story
The row2k Exclusive/Useless Report:
February 20, 2000
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C.R.A.S.H.-B.'s are Forever

I had a brief addition to the riff of last week's event. Although I am really not anybody of note in the rowing world, I would still like to thank Robert Brody of C-II and Commodore Kurt Somerville of CRASH-B for giving me some mic. time before the college doubles races. I was able to really surprise my girlfriend Eileen (Kennelly - not to be confused with an 'Ellen Kennelly' out of Cambridge) with a public engagement proposal. (she said yes by the way!!). We're going to try to get an October wedding put together.

We originally met at a planning meeting for the Southern Sprints here at Florida Tech three years ago, so it made sense that the CRASH-B was the appropriate forum to ask her to marry me, so I just went for it! And to have some of our close friends (and about 3000 strangers) to be witness was a great bonus. People asked me what I would have done if she had balked at the question (which I was pretty confident she wouldn't). I guess my only option would have been to get on and erg and pull myself into unconsciousness so the embarassment wouldn't seem so bad :).

Newly engaged,
John Corelli
Melbourne, FL

C.R.A.S.H.-B.'s are Forever
Zut Alors!
Bo, Luke, et. al

Turns out the Hazzard County crew mentioned on the front page of row2k wasn't from RI. Anyone know their local haunt?

Cyrus Beasley posted two PR's on the day - the first in the heat, the second in the final.

Look Fun? Not so sure.

World Records

Our sport is too tough; sometimes you just pain is temporary, pride forever...

Raucous congratulations to all the new World Record holders:
Amy Fuller - Open Women
Lisa Schlenker - LW Women
Tom Auth - LW Men 30-39
Jan Kaman veteran women B event (ages 60-69) Joe Clinard - veteran men D event (ages 80-89)

High Temps, Low Scores
Warm bodies - the temperature in the Reggie Lewis center was noticeably (and thankfully) cooler for the afternoon finals - the presence of so many erg-warmed bodies in the morning drove the temp up 5-10 degrees, I'd bet.
Speaking of the Heats...
Heat assignments made for some interesting juxtapositions.

Fit, towering giants alongside "squatty bodies"... technicians alongside true hammers... smooth masters alongside "asses and elbows" novices... The heats are a true look at the breadth of our sport.

The most interesting of these were the Kaya twins from Turkey. Save for about 10 strokes 500 meters into the heat, the twins rowed stroke for stroke, same cadence, same rhythm, catching and finishing at the same time. They finished almost together: one in 5:53.9, the other in 5:53.0. turned out that tenth of a second made all the difference - when Jamie Koven, who has been sick this week, scratched for the final, the faster of the twins was tapped to take Lane 10 in the final...

Somehow it was appropriate that Adam Holland and the Kaya twins rowed the heats side by side... Adam sat right next to them, and also scored a 5:54.0. something about that row in the gym?

Speaking of Adam, he's been leading a thread about rigging load and damper settings on rec.sport.rowing. Not one to shy away from solid research, he sat down on each of the finalist's ergs right after the men's international final and spun the wheel to find out the drag factor. Should result in some interesting threads...

It was interesting also to see variations in erg technique, as well as who wanted close coxing, and who didn't; I'll leave that analysis to the smart people.

Some coxes looked more taxed than the rowers; so did some others. Still others, even while watching a winning 6:02 junior men's effort, seemed to have trouble staying awake.

Then again, there are some guys no coxswain could match for facial intensity. Here's another.

The burn...
Row2k burned at least a dozen roles of film at the CRASH-B's - it's the scanning that's the most fun... not.
Walkmans, Water, and the Catwalk
Personally, I dunno about the use of a Walkman during the finals of the World Championships.

But then again, how about that water pack with the spritzer hose one masters woman wore during the entire piece?!?!? Their coxswain held the tube, and swung back and forth with them... For me, that would only add to the misery???

Speaking of spritzing, what models and ad folks have to go through...

Surf's up
Three flat wednesday crew members in the finals, medals to one of them, a fourth place finish to two others, one HW and one LW.
Kryptonite Man
Almost as fun as watching Dave Simon's assault on the machine was checking out the gallery standing behind the erg watching the carnage...

Sportsmanship Awards
Last year, Nick Tripician fell off the erg and howled perhaps the definitive statement about the Crash-b's " That Sucked!" This year, Trip just got up, stepped of the erg, gave a little air punch, and warmed down. Not nearly as amusing, but likely the sign of a maturing athlete...

In other sports(wo)manship of note: after winning the junior women's final going away, Caryn Davies didn't punch the air, wave to the crowd, or collapse on her erg. Instead, she took one stroke, and immediately started cheering for her teammate Deborah Dryer who, sitting immediately to her right. Team comes first in our sport...

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