The rowing “season” runs from May 1 through the following April 30. (No, I don't know why. Yet!) Before the SIUC Student Rec Center closed, I had a couple of goals for the current season ending this month. Initially I'd hoped to reach 2 million meters for the first time since 2014–2015, but that became unreachable when the Rec Center closed.
Confined to the lake, now the goal is to have the most water-meters since 2012–2013. We'll see.
Alternative shot not posted: The location of a place on the lake where one can make an “emergency stop”… Perhaps this requires an explanation, because—without taking a swim—scullers cannot get out of their shell just anywhere and go ashore.
In sculls, all the balance is in the oars, which are ~9½ feet long.
See how they were shipped to me: 365 post!
» The oarlocks are fixed, more than 1½ feet from the outside edge of the shell.
» The oars extend more than 6½ feet beyond the oarlocks.
With the oars fixed and extending more than 8 feet from the outside edges of the shell, one cannot get closer to shore than 8 feet, unless the shoreline is void of rocks, trees, shrubs, and the like. So one must find a sandy beach, a ramp, or some sort of “ledge” to disembark. A dock is a ledge, of course, but today I found a rock ledge where I could disembark and answer Nature's call…
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