Paul Rosenquist

Last weeks have been productive. Both at work and training is rolling on nicely. Nice to get some cred for it as well. Richard (my boss) wrote a fun thing on his blog. Yesterday I recieved my new winter running shoes…yess…17 car tire spikes on each foot. Same day it began to freeze and snow litely so I gratefulle strapped them on the last two mornings to try them out on my little morning round over the rocks and throught the forest.
The grips is bloody amazing. Feels like running on velcro or something. I will get a picture posted soon..they are soo bloody green that you gotta see them.
Are now planning a training week and holiday as well. Nothing fixed yett, but looking at training a week in Holland on the Bosbaan and than go for a 10 day mini expedition to Marocko. Biking and climbing. Well see.

Just give a sligth insight in the day of 2008 Paul

Gets, up and re-alizes he is still not motivated to jump out of the bed, commute to the club and freeze his balls of on the water. But the temperature is probably not the issue…the erg is calling and I’m giving her the finger from the bed…
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Got a piece of vid of our eight race against Falkenberg during the nationals.

What a race! Happy to be at the good side of the Beep beep finish.. Enjoy!

The Kiwi’s seem to be getting a firm grip on the sculling boats…Rob Waddell beat the greatest rower of the last few years Mahe in a ’small’ regatta… Mahe raced a pretty good race I guess as his time was excellent! But Rob managed to get his super power translated into boatspeed and beat Mahe by a margin…and was only 3sec of Mahe’s world best time. Awesome.

Years of grinding the winches seem to have left its traces….

While we here in cold Europe consider our season over and done with the guys from the Southern Hemisphere are right inte the next one.
Most of the elite guys here either put on some skis or head for sunnier places and easily clock the miles and lift weights in comfy gymes. Some might give the erg a bash every now and than.

Not so in New Zealand. Here 3 times world champ Mahe got an unexpected (assumingly) surprise of his once example Rob Waddell. If everybody in A final of Single races are super human, than Rob might be classed as hyper human. In 2000 the 200cm long kiwi weighing 97kgs won the Olympic final in Oz. He had by than won the world champs two years in a row before that. Mahe has now won all three and has his bow ball fixed on the Beijing gold. Rob turned to grinding winches on the Kiwi America’s cup boat. Having not been able to return the prestigeous cup bask to New Zealand probably made him think of his successes as a rower. He has obviously worked really hard during a couple of months losing 30 kg’s of upperbody grinding muscle and retaining his extreme fitnes levels. Rumours go that he has crushed the 15 min barrier on the 5 k erg! Lassi last year was awesome with 15:11,2. Not completely confirmed but I read a 14.58 (1.26 last 500mtr) somewhere…that together with a 2k test that left him 1 second short of the world record 6.38…. Inspiring stuff to see how, with some talent, you can just open the bag again and come back to this extraordinary level!

THIS weekend on sunday he will race Mahe for the first time…a friendly match but you can bet there are lot of eyes on this regatta. Mahe, the coolest rower I know probably doesnt get to stressed about it all…the trails wont be until march or so.

I will be thinking of that while cruising up and down on our nearly frozen lake here in Stockholm.

Some links:
http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/071212/3/39un.html

Some Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d0JOq0HCBAs