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It was great to have several of the Arizona (and formerly-Arizona) Outlaws together again to race - Paula, Ted, Kathy, Rebecca, and Iskra, with Iskra’s friends Nick and Teddy from Vancouver as honorary outlaws […]
The third weekend in October is a busy one for rowers. The big news is of course the Head of the Charles, and this year Pete Cannia took it on in a single, though he rowed it as City of Tempe rather than as an Outlaw. The proprieters of this site are sure the much […]
Rebecca again with another quick regatta report. This morning REI hosted the Dam-to-Dam regatta on Tempe Town Lake, a regatta featuring human-powered craft of all sorts (but mostly kayakers and rowers). This is a pretty low-key event, more about the chance to hang out with other boaters than about guts and glory and […]
Paula left to meet her mother in London for a few days, leaving me as a bachelor in the Netherlands. While she was gone I decided to go carousing through the Netherlands drinking and hanging out with my buddies. By the end of the day I had seen a lot of the Netherlands, […]
Rebecca here, with another regatta update. Hopefully we’ll have some pictures to post by the end of the week.
Saturday morning was race day, and the weather was a bit cool and just a bit more than a bit windy. There was a strong, gusty cross-wind, absolutely the most annoying possible kind of wind for […]
Rebecca here with a report on the Desert Sprints and San Diego Crew Classic Regattas.
It has been a busy spring for the Outlaws. On March 10, Carrie, Kathy, and I raced in the Desert Sprints under various different names and identities. The best news of all was that the weather was perfect for […]
On December 10, Paula had her first European race, in the Dames dubbel-twee (W2X) event in the ERV Beatrix Head Trials. This is a relatively small local race, but with distances in the Netherlands being so short and rowing relatively widespread, three clubs from other cities participated as well as the club members. Race conditions […]
Just to warn you, this is a wee bit long because we had many adventures.
Last weekend, four Outlaws (myself, Dave, Kathy, and E) competed in the rowing marathon in Louisiana. It was an event-filled weekend, beginning with a huge thunderstorm Friday night (complete with tornado warnings for the area where our boats were stored), […]
by Rebecca
Well, it was a hugely successful regatta for the Outlaws on our home turf. Not only did we have a good showing amongst the volunteers, with both Kathy and Carrie running the show on the dock, but we also believe that we had the highest per-capita success rate of the regatta, winning every event […]
October 21, 2006
Ted and his partner Erik-Jan rowed together in the Veterans 2x at the Tromp Boat Race in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The race was a 5.2 meter race on a cannel through the Dutch countryside with great weather by local standards. The course even had a classic windmill near […]
The 4th Annual Arizona Outlaw Erg Marathon was held September 23rd in Phoenix Arizona. There were a total of 15 participants that conquered the distance of 42,195 meters, many of them doing it for the first time. Everyone successfully completed the marathon and almost everyone set a new personal record.
We used avenue this year to […]
The Outlaws @ USRowing Masters Nationals
Ted (2 Silver & 1 Bronze), Pete (1 Silver, 2 Bronze), Iskra (1 Gold, 1 Silver), and Rebecca all attended the 2006 USRowing Masters Nationals Regatta.
Ted started the 3100 mile (320 gallons of gas) trip to the 2006 USRowing Masters Nationals regatta 5 days before the event started. The first […]
Paula and Ted quickly packed up from the Rural Henley in Klamath Falls, Oregon to make the six hour drive to Sacramento for the USRowing Southwest Regional Championship. On arrival, Ted & Paula called Kathy, who had flown in that afternoon, to meet at the venue to unload and rig the boats. We were […]
On Saturday July 8, Ted and Paula raced in the Rural Henley Regatta in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It’s a small race, but is conveniently situated for us; Ted’s parents live a couple hours to the west, his patnernal grandparents a couple of hours to the east. This was the first time these grandparents had seen […]
Newbie Outlaw members Julie Busskohl and “E” Diethelm (that would be me–the one writing this) took a road trip to Marina Del Rey to participate in their first non Tempe Town Lake Regatta. We were accompanied by the spouses so we had plenty of help getting the shells rigged and in the water. Julie […]
Lake Tahoe is a gorgeous, gorgeous place to row. And the North Tahoe Rowing Regatta is a great way to enjoy it.
Dave and Eva have been rowing this regatta and trying to talk the rest of us Outlaws into it for several years now. This year Ted and I were finally able to make […]
The Gold Rush Regatta this year was awesome. The weather was in the high 70’s, with a minor head wind in the morning diminishing to perfect glass conditions by 10:00 am that lasted until the end of the Regatta at 730 PM. The Outlaws did well, with everyone winning at least 1 […]
145 days without rain in Phoenix came to an end on March 11, 2006; unfortunately it was also the same day as the Desert Sprints. Despite every attempt to stay dry, it was clear that all the athletes had to get used to being wet; we’d put on dry layers but end up with […]
Each year we make the boat decorations more elaborate. This year the barge was turned into a huge sleigh with a Santa clad in a Hawaiian shirt being pulled by sailing penguins and rowers. This year we won the man powered division again, we have won this division each of the 5 years […]
Arizona Outlaws
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At the 2005 Marathon
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Rowing Championship
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This year all of the Outlaw Marathon Rowers had marathon experience and trained harder than in past years. Since there were no newbies in the race we had a little less fun telling snake and alligator stories.
As with many regattas, the trip itself is a big part of […]