All rowers are human

When racing we tend to think a lot about our own pain and we rarely pause to think that the other competitors are feeling pain too. At the end of the day when two people have trained equally hard, the final decider of who will win is the question of who will put up with the pain the longest, and who will be relentless in their quest to win.

Rowers are not robots!!(even if they act like them)

People are quick to think that those who are better than them will beat them but at the end of the day your opponents get scared, feel pain and worry just like normal people even if they are better than you. They don't know (normally unless you raced the day before and even then things can change) what your capable of. Just because they've won more doesn't mean they cease to worry and feel pain! They can crack under pressure! You just have to keep putting them under pressure. If they are going to win then make them pay for it, hunt them down till you have crossed the line. A race is a fight. A fight with your self and your pain.

Great rowers feel pain too.

The following video is a reminder that all great people feel pain. Even the likes of Steve Redgrave, Mathew Pinsent and co. didn't always enjoy doing erg tests. If you watch the whole series of the oarsome foursome you will see that they cracked under pressure and had to fight their own personal battles every day just like the rest of us. With that in mind, never give up, never stand down, remember all the training you did and take the fight to your opponents.