2007 American Cancer Society Fundraiser Relay for Life Newport Beach

Hello Everyone.

This weekend was the Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society.

We had a team of rowers who took turns rowing for 24 hours. It was awesome. While we were rowing other people were walking around the football field for the duration of the fundraiser. This is our third participation at the Relay and we had a beautiful spot to row from. We had the view of the bleachers and once night fell we could see the luminaries. It was a beautiful setting.

Val ended up rowing over 100 000 meters.
Pat did a whole bunch but ended up getting sick from some rotten sandwich.
A great thank you to Karen, Kelly, Lynne A, Lynne B, Kathy G., Jim G., Carol, Nicole, Connie, Lisa, Richard, Dave, and a few others whose name eludes me at the moment, for rowing and putting in your time to raise awareness for fighting cancer.
I only got to row 12 KM; I was more the organizer than the rower this weekend.

Overall the Relay raised US$186K which is a whopping 60 000 more than last year.

We look forward to participating again.

All the best from us here in Costa Mesa, CALIFORNIA!

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

When you have little aches and pains:

Hello
I spoke to one of our rowers who mentioned getting a tender hip flexor by the end of the workday.
The tenderness does not worsen during rowing.
Thus, my suggestion was to gently stretch the quad and hip flexor every once in a while during the day. Our rower stands most of the day and my reasoning behind the tender hip flexor is that the muscle does not get any break from being stretched out all day. I will be watching proper rowing technique. A lack of lower back support may stress the hip flexor at the finish and on the recovery. The recovery is especially

Pacific Coast Rowing Championships

This weekend we took an eight to Sacramento to race in Open Heavyweight Eight category.
Nick D'Antony, David Krueger, Val Stepanchuk, Patrick Israel, Benton Spark, Will ., Evan Wilson, Jeff Collet and Kate Mead (coxwain).
Race time 1.20pm Saturday
Location: Sacramento State Aqautic Center, LAKE NATOMA

we raced...

USC, SacState, +3 sac capital crews jrs.

times: 6.18,3 6.22

A great race by the French pair at the 2000 Olympics

You probably wonder why I have a streak of youtube video posting at the moment. A couple of days ago I used key words "olympic rowing" in google's video search engine and was DELIGHTED to see that the library of video footage has nicely grown. I picked this footage of the men's pair at the 2000 Olympics because their attack in the second half of the final was just incredible. When that was happening I was sitting in my boat on the race course waiting for the men's single scull medal ceremony. Watch this race it is great.
All the best, and I hope that you all are having a great weekend.
PS: By the way I am not loading video directly onto this site because Bryan from norther California told me that not everyone had high speed internet. I salute you Bryan. I hope you will enjoy the footage from the youtube site directly.
WATCH THE RACE CLICK ON THIS LINE

XENO

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

Good rowing technique from the French Olympic gold medalists

Here is the video on youtube.com

They rowed great for the Olympics in the men's double scull. When I look at their rowing in the single scull I see some discrepancies which the two rowers refine when they row together.

These two French rowers are a lot smaller then their competitors. If you don't speak French there are a couple huge pieces of information for successful rowing performance.

Strength training leading into the last weeks before peaking for the Olympics.
Relaxation and compressing the legs at the catch even if this requires to row slightly more upright.
Enormous amount of endurance training during winter. When they reduced the volume during the world cup season they noticed that they were losing some ability to keep their race speed up. In anticipation of the Olympics they reduced speed work, got back into strength training phase. Once they became "fit" again they rowed into the final stages of speed work.
The French did a beautiful job.

Over and out.

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