You have to be a little different to be a rower. You have to learn to make pain your friend.
Maybe that explains one of the Washington women’s rowing team’s mottos this year: Embrace the suck.
The Huskies decided eight months ago that the worse they suffer, the better. They even started rooting for inclement weather during practice — screaming wildly when hit by frosty wind gusts or torrential rain.
It was a survival technique, really. Sometimes tricking one’s mind is the only way to make such torment possible.
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