late christmas greetings

and as every year we went on rowing for the morning of christmas eve. a bit hung over and freezing but still ok:

[from left to right: meike coxing, jan, yvonne, me and boris]

finally

after some years we've won the rhine marathon [leverkusen - düsseldorf] once more:

from left to right: wolf, rainer, claudia [thanks you very much for perfect coxing! no water in our boat], boris and me

rowing?

while watching the olympics someone posted a nice link to a guinea pig calendar pic

roeiveerkamp amsterdam

we're leaving a fair enough impression for the lack of training, a newly assembled crew and severe conditions for the spainish team ;)
and no, i'm not crying...

Kölner Stadtachter

siebter der herzen!












cox mit vorbereitungen, rauchen; einteileranprobe








mannschaft vorher....









mannschaft nachher!









verladen nach dem rennen












olympiasieger beim schrubben











mannschaft











verladen bei scheinwerferlicht











wolf auf dem podest









promenade








benno, frank, ines, simon, cox, stefan












no bigblades?









promenade

the beauty

[from left to right: simon fast, stephan nolden, ivan fast, sven "würmchen/cox" breidenbach, frank mager, wolf strauß, behind ansgar wessling; missing: bernhard spanke and me]

and the rest of the crew:











[you can also mix the titles of the pictures, as they were origianlly inteded]

Not the best

training conditions:








broken oar from stadtacher training:











and our boat: