Making Friends

The other day I was at the gym and decided to do an erg workout (erg = unit of work, or an indoor rowing machine) and there was already someone on one of the machines at the gym. No big deal, there was another erg to use. But I took a look at the guy rowing, and he didn't look like the typical gym-rower. While he did have the resistance at 10, he had form and good length and good ratio  through each stroke... so I figured he must be a rower.

I hopped on the erg next to him, and decided to do something I haven't done since college... erg at the same pace as someone else. It was kinda cool and much better than erging solo. It didn't help that all the gym-goers using the ergs try to get a good back workout and not a leg workout, so end up killing the chain and sensor - leaving me with a non-functional display on my erg.

Well I ended up doing about 40 mins in-sync with Mike. Afterwards, I chatted with him and turns out he's from Michigan (booo), and told him I went to Notre Dame (don't worry no harsh words were exchanged.. he just told me he still has a Notre Dame shirt (quick lesson in rowing: when racing, the losing teams must give up their shirts to the 1st place team)).

In the end, it was pretty cool being able to row next to a fellow rower and meet Mike from Michigan. Woo, friends.

And just because I'm talking about rowing... here's a video of this past year's recruiting video: