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Water Workout: Rowing is addicting |
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Written by Marissa Hutton-Gavel
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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 Face it, we’re all looking for the perfect workout.
Whether you’re a tri-athlete or a tri-couch potato, if there were something that incorporated some of the best aspects of Colorado, camaraderie in the form of a sweating partner (no, not like that — get your mind out of the gutter), a teammate and the extra time to grab your morning latte post-work out, wouldn’t you jump at the chance to try it?
Pretend for a moment that the 90-degree heat hasn’t banished all thought of physical exertion from your consciousness and go with a “yes.”
Thirty men and women have found said revelation in the form of a little thing called rowing. The members of Fort Collins Rowing Association get up before morning traffic, take the scenic drive up to Horsetooth Reservoir and glide along the glass-like water for the best workout around.
“Once you get that feeling, it’s a rush and you want to keep doing it,” Tonya Dunn, membership chairwoman for the association, said. “It’s the best full body workout and it’s low impact.”
Aside from allowing you to feel the burn better than Billy Blanks could, Dunn and longtime friend and fellow rower Aimee Jensen agree that the bonds they’ve formed on the water is what keeps them coming back. “It’s the thrill of working in a group,” Jensen said. “And we’re all working as one.”
Dunn, who took up rowing after having “fantasized about it for years,” turned her friend on to rowing shortly after Jensen was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2005. “I started two weeks after my lumpectomy and went all through radiation. It really helped with my mental health,” Jensen said. “The beauty of it, the physical exertion of it and hearing the water, too, that’s another thing I love.”
Being on the water, everyone pulling in unison, creates a sense of equality. And for Jensen, that was important. “They treated me like a normal person.”
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WANT TO ROW?
The Fort Collins Rowing Association has a Web site, www.fcrowing.com, where you can find membership application. There is a $50 membership fee.
For more information, check out the Web site, e-mail to
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or call Molly Johnson at 472.0091, Tonya Dunn at 566.1988 or Eric Stevens at 988 7724.
You can also write:
Fort Collins Rowing Association, Inc.
Attn: Tonya Dunn
2660 Bainbridge St.
Fort Collins, CO 80524 | Only registered users can write comments.
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