What Was Your Work Out Today?

Rowing club's social Fall row this morning, in which we took a quad and a double upstream past the bridge where we usually spin, into a wider shallower area at first, with quite a few potential snags. (I was in bow of the double.) It's less developed up on that stretch, with a cemetery and houses at first, then a nature area and mostly wooded views on both sides.

The swans are usually up there, and today were kind enough to give us a close flyover: They make a haunting sound as they fly, if one is close enough to hear. There was an egret (modeling feathers white enough to nearly glow), and some great blue herons, plus the usual ducks, geese, etc.

Not much Fall color yet here, but we had a rather lovely (but slightly scary) fog on the early part of the row, which eventually burned off about half way through. The water was very calm, so the reflections were striking after the sun came out.

Round trip was only about 8.8km, and (because of the potential snags) much of it at a very slow pace. In the double, we did some interval pieces once back in our safer familiar part of the river with the fog gone (10 stroke hard, 10 stroke moderate repeats). For various reasons (heat, surgeries, etc.) we haven't done intervals much recently, so that was fun.