These days all you hear about is how well the football team or the field hockey team did over the weekend at their games. But what about the sport that Darien High School does not offer to its students: Rowing. Almost every weekend rowers all over Darien wake up at 6 am and drive 2-4 hours to the racecourse hours before they actually have to be out on the water. Not meaning to poke at other sports but rowing is one of the hardest sports a young student athlete can do, both physically and mentally. “It’s a good way to keep in shape, and it pushes you to be your best,” Felicity Cain, a sophomore at DHS said. Cain rows for Saugatuck Rowing Club, which is located in Westport. While rowing can challenge an athlete physically, it challenges one mentally. If you ask any rower you know the thing that they are most scared of is testing. Yes, even a sport can have testing, and to a rower it is awful. While it can show how good an athlete is, it makes them nervous and scared at the same time. While it is a great sport, it has a few minor setbacks; however, they might not bother you after a few months. 1. Blisters- a painful experience for new rowers and even ones who have been at it for a while. 2. Strange Bruising on your shoulders- carrying most of the boat when your teammates do not. 3. The erg- the most feared machine to ever be invented. What all testing is done on. 2K, 4K, 5K, 6K . . . the possibilities for testing are unlimited. There are many great boathouses that you can join, really at the start of any season. Those include MRC/New Canaan, CBC, Norwalk River Rowing, Greenwich, SONO, and Saugatuck. At any of these boathouses you will feel like it is your second home, considering the fact that it is the place between home and school.
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