http://MattWright.sweat365.com Sweat365 » Move more, every day. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://MattWright.sweat365.com/2008/06/14/1st-triathlon/#comment-1 andreabona Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:52:39 +0000 http://MattWright.sweat365.com/2008/06/14/1st-triathlon/#comment-1 hey matt, good job getting out there and doing tris. i did a few at the end of college and for a year or 2 after before i got serious about rowing. after rowing in college (la salle university in philladelphia) in a program that was essentially a club sport (didn't learn how to row very well but learned to work hard) i rowed for vesper boat club. i learned to scull there as a way to be more versatile and i was coming up the ranks just as they added lightweight events at the olympics. it's certainly a lot easier not to have to have a partner every time you want to go out. spent the better part of 6 years training full time. training took me to quite a few cities in the u.s. and i was fortunate enough to make the pan am team in 1995 wanted to make a go for the 2000 olympics but wrapped it up in 1999 and settled in seattle. i'm at pocock rowing center where we have an excellent elite/pre-elite sculling program. i only row recreationally now, but am pretty involved in the program. we're hoping to grow the program quite a bit next year. i rowed opening day for the first time this year. it was pretty cool, but i don't think it can compare to the spectacle of the head of the charles. nice to have a fellow rower around here - now there's 2 of us! o.k. that's enough for now...hope to get to know you better. keep up the good work! hey matt,
good job getting out there and doing tris. i did a few at the end of college and for a year or 2 after before i got serious about rowing.
after rowing in college (la salle university in philladelphia) in a program that was essentially a club sport (didn’t learn how to row very well but learned to work hard) i rowed for vesper boat club. i learned to scull there as a way to be more versatile and i was coming up the ranks just as they added lightweight events at the olympics. it’s certainly a lot easier not to have to have a partner every time you want to go out. spent the better part of 6 years training full time. training took me to quite a few cities in the u.s. and i was fortunate enough to make the pan am team in 1995 wanted to make a go for the 2000 olympics but wrapped it up in 1999 and settled in seattle. i’m at pocock rowing center where we have an excellent elite/pre-elite sculling program. i only row recreationally now, but am pretty involved in the program. we’re hoping to grow the program quite a bit next year.
i rowed opening day for the first time this year. it was pretty cool, but i don’t think it can compare to the spectacle of the head of the charles.
nice to have a fellow rower around here - now there’s 2 of us!
o.k. that’s enough for now…hope to get to know you better. keep up the good work!

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