Community Rowing

The sun came out for Summer Solstice half-marathon team relay row challenge today 😎 Well done to all the teams that participated!

Thanks to Dr. Heffernan for a great article on the history of non-commercial community based gyms like my old weighltlifting club and Ireland's oldest continually running Hercules gym in Dublin. They are few and far between in the 21st century. Physical culture has been replaced by the new gym culture and it isn't progress. ☘️ 💪

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A day in the life of an Olympic rowing champion. "Rowing on the machine is great anyway — it works out all of your muscles and helps develop your endurance and your fitness."

Saturday with Paul O'Donovan: When the weather is good, West Cork is the best place in the world 'When I’m rowing it’s often nice to listen to nothing, to switch off and let the time drift by, but if I am listening to music, I listen almost entirely to classical music'