Week 21/2016 in Review
Training Last week was a recovery week, which I am always looking forward to, but don’t enjoy very much in the end. Somehow, I am always a little bit more exhausted than usual and quite grumpy a...
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Week 20/2016 in Review
Training This week was quite frustrating because I couldn’t force myself to train on the water (more than twice) since the weather wasn’t great. Towards the end of the week, the winds were...
Week 15/2016 in Review and Vegan in Bergen, Norway
Training As mentioned in my previous post, we spent most of the week in Bergen, Norway, with our friend Veronika. Thankfully, I was able to work out at least some of the days since I was able to test ...
I Am Back: Happy Vegan New Year
I know I said in one of my last posts in October that I was planning on posting more regularly again, but I lost my rowing (and blog-writing) mojo after the last regatta of the year. It was very hard ...
Training Week 2 in Review
I don’t know why, but this week went by really fast. It was wonderful for me to see that I am already making a lot of progress after only a bit more than one week of serious training. More impor...
“Pig-Dog”: Friend, Not Food! Picking Up Our Boat From Italy
Ciao, my name is “Schweinehund” (read more about my name HERE) and I was born in July 2015 near Florence, Italy. I am a wing rigger double scull rowing boat and my “skin” color is ce...
Training Week 1 in Review
Monday was the official start of our structured training with a professional workout plan written by our strength coach Max. Not being used to doing intervals and strength exercises regularly, as well...