Hello Team, I would like to introduce V A L to you all.

Val is the rider on the right

As you can see, I invited my friend Val to write to this blog. He and I run the bulck of the workouts at the Iron Oarsman. Val is also a great snowboarder. He teaches people to snowboard an hour and a half away from us at Big Bear. Besides having a great time leading workouts at the Iron Oarsman, he works at Sport Chalet, South Coast Plaza.

Thanks to Val we now have a dry erase board on which we write down our monthly rowing goal in meters and our daily totals. Thanks to Val's innovation, I have been rowing more while having an even greater time.

Val also hikes mountains and competes in marathon bike rides and hikes.

I see Val and I working together for a long time. He is the perfect link between the Iron Oarsman and other social spheres that I would not easily find time to mix in with due to a truck load of other responsibilities.

Val speaks Ukrainian too.

All the very best to all of you.

XENO
Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist.
Barcelona/Atlanta/Sydney

Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.