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September 05th, 2013

9/5/2013

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I've been eyeing up websites lately - I've been rowing just over a year and am thoroughly enjoying it. From a former couch potato who skived off PE at school and never did anything other than a bit of golf and lazy tennis, this is quite something. Every other day at daybreak, plop, in goes the Edon and off I go to challenge my heart and the Speedcoach to get that average stroke rate down. A Concept 2 rowing machine would be more cost-effective and convenient but does it leave a bubbly wake, reward a good stroke technique or provide ever-chaging scenery and close-ups of fish jumping? No.

Now the Edon is by definition a training scull, it's only 5.13 meters long, is relatively draggy compared to a true racing scull so thoughts on the back straight usually turn to something thin, long and pointy, made of carbon and kevlar and impossibly fast.

Then common sense sets in - for me? No. Completely daft. I'd break it, fall out of it and get eaten by an alligator, and it wouldn't even fit in my garage. It would cost a few times more than the Edon and I couldn't row it about the little "kayaky" inlets all over our coast. All in all, even if one day I can afford the carbon fibre shell and find somewhere to store it, I'll still be using the Edon regularly for what it does so well - keep me dry and get me fitter day after day after day - bangs, scrapes an' all. Those Edon ozzies did a good job.

Fastest time ever today - must be the new red grips.

Onwards!

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