The 4th Annual Ergotica
Report (and captions) by Steve Jensen, photography by Lori JensenResults - requires Acrobat plug-in - get it, you'll need it eventually.
 Master's Men: For Tiff Wood and Bill Byrd, the race is run, while the rest of us, mere mortals, toil on. |
 Ana Kammann faces the countdown. |
 Starter Brad Crawford watches as the Open Men line up for the finals. |
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 Ana watches coxswain Rod Warner work � for a change, he is rowing while she sits and kibitzes. |
 Steve Jensen and Laura Jackson running the computers, stunned and amazed that everything is working! |
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The 4th Annual Pacific Rim Indoor Rowing Championships (Ergotica), jointly sponsored by Portland Boat Club and the Portland State University Crew, was held on the campus of Portland State University on Saturday, January 30th.Ergotica is a 2000-meter rowing ergometer race open to juniors, open, and masters competitors. There were 76 contestants and 12 events, including a coxswain�s race and 4-rower relays. Concept II provided the racing software, erg displays, and computer interface, all of which worked perfectly (many thanks, Concept!). Oregon Rowing Unlimited and Lake Oswego Rowing Club provided the Model C Concept II ergometers.
Prizes and Certificates of Merit were awarded to the first, second and third place finishers. The first place prize was a very useful carpenter�s hammer, second place prize was Dr. John Rudoff�s famous Rower�s Wrench, and the coveted third place prize was a bag of fresh-baked home-made chocolate-chip and peanut butter cookies.
If erg racing can be considered fun, a good time was had by all.
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