Great idea for valentines day!  Help your Valentine keep his/her New Year’s resolution with this awesome promotion.  Get a RowZone long sleeve bamboo tee and 10 classes for only $100.  That is a $185 value!  Purchase online or at the studio.  Various sizes!  Promotion valid until end of February.

January Promotion is going on until Jan 31!

Show RowZone Manayunk your love on Yelp!

Write a review on Yelp!and you might win a 5 class pass ($90 value) or a RowZone Bamboo Tee!  On January 31 at 6:15pm we will randomly select one review among all entered to win a class pass.  The review that shows the most love for RowZone Manayunk  wins a RowZone Bamboo Long Sleeve Tee ($35 value).  Everyone has 2 chances to win!  Please note that it might take 2 or 3 days for your review to post and that  Yelp! removes certain reviews at their discretion. 

Events:

All events are on our facebook page.  Check out who is going!

Join other RowZoners for these fun and competitive events:

Jan 29 9 to 10 am Manayunk Silde – 2000m indoor rowing race, 4 ergs connected to RowPro
$5 registration morning of race 9-10am
Open Div M/F
16-29 Div M/F
30-39 Div M/F
40-49 Div M/F
50-59 Div M/F
60+ M/F
Winners receive RZ Bamboo T-shirt

Main Line Slides Saturday, February 4 at 7:30am

Center City Slam Saturday, February 11 at  8:00am

Get Your Rear in Gear - Get Your Rear in Gear (Supports Colon Cancer) Date: Sunday, March 18, 2012. Registration: 7:00 a.m. at Philadelphia Museum of Art10K Timed Run: 8:30 a.m.5K Timed Run: 8:30 a.m.2 Mile Walk: 8:35 a.m.Tony’s Trot Kids’ Fun Run: 10:00 a.m.

New Classes and Resources:

To prepare for the events above we offer:

·         RZ Advanced Training: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm – This is session focuses on stability muscles, higher weights, more reps, and intense cross training for endurance and power athletes.

·         Open Row Sessions: Monday and Friday at 4pm – Come in and get some extra meters.  You set the pace!  You set the distance!  Bring your own music, and get into it!

http://www.meetup.com/Run-like-a-Philly-Girl/ – a free running group that meets during various times and locations.  All levels welcome!  Some runs are for beginners; some are for faster runners.

OUTSIDE MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 2011

SCULL CRUSHERS

By: MICHAEL ROBERTS

On wind-blasted San Fran­cisco Bay, a crew of hardcore rowers dodges freighters and fog banks for kicks. They are mostly women over 40. And they will destroy you.

THIS IS A STORY OF ADVENTURE that ends with a gold medal and glory. Along the way there is the hubris of youth, friendly porpoises, and a moment of true terror.

It begins on a commuter ferry one morning last summer in the middle of San Francisco Bay, where I spotted two rowers gliding past Alcatraz in what looked like collegiate racing shells. My first reaction: Holy crap!The bay is a wicked place for boating, with swirling currents, menacing fog banks, and winds that regularly blow 20 to 30 knots. The water temperature hovers around 55 ­degrees. There are great white sharks. It’s not a place for small open-cockpit craft—or so I wrongly assumed. A minute of smartphone Googling led me to the site of the Open ­Water Rowing Center (OWRC) in Sausalito, just north of the city. Apparently, folks there have been charging around in modified shells for 25 years.

Really, I shouldn’t have been so surprised. The Bay Area has long been a magnet for adven­ture-sports pioneers. America’s oldest trail-running race, the Dipsea, has been held on Marin County’s Mount Tamalpais since 1905. Gary Fisher and crew invented mountain biking on the same slopes in the 1970s. Today, San Francisco and its surround­ing burbs are loaded with kitesurfers, paragliders, and big-wave surfers. Growing up here, I’d often felt insufficiently gnarly.

Rowing struck me as an easier pathway into the local fraternity of badasses, especially when I discovered that many of the 100-plus OWRC regulars were at least 50 years old and a good number qualified for ­Social Security. They were at that stage in life—kids grown up, wealth accumulated—where they had the time to row and the ­resources to buy a boat ($4,000 and up) and pay for storage ($1,500 per year). Plus, most of the really serious mem­bers were women.

For about $475, I signed up for two novice lessons and a three-month fall membership, which included unlimited use of the 11 club shells. Once I got the basics down, I could join group workouts. There was also a three-hour rough-water clinic involving a row under the Golden Gate Bridge. In November, I’d be welcome to race in the annual 8.4-nautical-mile regatta around Angel Island. The way I saw it, at just 36 years old and moderately fit, I’d be the club stud by Thanksgiving.

Then I met the two Marys.

LIKE CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING, rowing is 95 percent technique—a series of sequential ­motions, each critically important. Imagine trying to shoot a basketball using giant chop­sticks while running backward. Unlike, say, learning to ride a bicycle, you never just “get it.” Even veterans work on the ­mechanics constantly.

And so it was that I found myself bobbing nervously among eight other rowers at the start of a group row on a clear September morning. Since my lessons, I’d completed a handful of frustrating solo outings. I was so eager for speed that I was constantly digging my oars too deep or barely skimming the surface. Several times, I’d nearly pitched headlong into the drink.

Outside Magazine, October 2011

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/dropping-in/Scull-Crushers.html