Pinapple Chunks (Rowers will Know)

So on Sunday the corporate rowing had it's first regatta. The Port Authority team had training at 7:30 am then we hung around and went in some races later in the morning. There are 12 teams going in it and some of the teams have been in corporate rowing for 3 years. Anyway now I'm a financial member of the Townsville and JCU rowing club. It's not a bad sport good excersise but just doesn't last for very long. I mean the races on the weekend were 250m, not all that far, but then our team might have trouble balancing our boat for a race that is longer than that. Not that we are bad but that's the way rowing goes you have to learn to balance the boat then you can learn to get your stroke right then you can concentrate on perfecting the technique. each of these steps has a different time frame as well. 5-8 trainings to get the balance alright. then 20-50 more trainings to get a decent stroke technique, then the perfect technique is like the search for the perfect wave "maybe the next one will be better".
This is our team, Min is the Cox in the stern and I am in seat 6 the third rowing seat from the stern. We were not the best team but neither were we the worst team and there are some easy ways for our team to improve by about another 10-14 seconds over a 250m race. For the record our Time over 250m was 0:1:26 which I thought wasn't bad untill I thought about our 500m time in the ocean in an outrigger cannoe was 0:2:02 which is considerably faster in a boat that is much slower. Oh well we just have to work on it, what was it in the last post oh yes 'Better pick up the pace'.