[Redrum]

When I was rowing my single during my Sacramento days (wife in law school at McGeorge)  I would put in on the Sac St. facility at Lake Natoma.  They really invested in building up that place.  It was the Sac St. crews (men and women) that would do training in the heat of the day in late afternoon.  I would "race" against them, which involved a head start and holding them off as long as I could.  Even in a single there are times when the boat has rhythm and it feels great...until the women's eight comes by you at speed and you realize it's esthetically pleasing but you're not that fast.  It was even worse when their little pipsqueak coxes (sorry fullmetal)  were really feelin' it and made too-close passes for the hell of it.  Nice risk of some very expensive blades but I can't blame them.  Not a lot of thrills for sale in Sacramento summers and the upper end of Natoma toward Folsom dam is surrounded by high bluffs.  A regular furnace.  Buzzing me was probably the only fun anybody had.

[Redrum]

When I was rowing my single during my Sacramento days (wife in law school at McGeorge)  I would put in on the Sac St. facility at Lake Natoma.  They really invested in building up that place.  It was the Sac St. crews (men and women) that would do training in the heat of the day in late afternoon.  I would "race" against them, which involved a head start and holding them off as long as I could.  Even in a single there are times when the boat has rhythm and it feels great...until the women's eight comes by you at speed and you realize it's esthetically pleasing but you're not that fast.  It was even worse when their little pipsqueak coxes (sorry fullmetal)  were really feelin' it and made too-close passes for the hell of it.  Nice risk of some very expensive blades but I can't blame them.  Not a lot of thrills for sale in Sacramento summers and the upper end of Natoma toward Folsom dam is surrounded by high bluffs.  A regular furnace.  Buzzing me was probably the only fun anybody had.