In Allie's wake: Bucky Days are here again
November 16, 2018 | Women's Rowing
The Badgers season comes off the water and into Porter Boathouse
Senior and Chanhassen, Minnesota, native Allie Lohrenz is giving regular updates this year from Porter Boathouse and around the country as the women's rowing team travels through the 2018-19 season. A third generation Wisconsin student-athlete (grandfather played football and mom was a rower), Lohrenz played lacrosse and competed in motocross before walking onto the Badger rowing program her freshman year.
MADISON, Wis. -- The last week of fall rowing is finally upon us! Though high winds and poor weather conditions forced the cancellation of our final fall scrimmage against Minnesota, the rest of the week has shaken out just fine as there's no weather a splash jacket can't handle.
Next week things will be slowing down a little bit as we make our shift from a 20 hour to an eight-hour-a-week schedule, as mandated by the NCAA. For athletes and coaches, this means a more limited schedule of interaction and a break from outside competition. For us Badgers in particular, it means the docks come out until Mendota thaws (your guess is as good as mine), entering an exclusive relationship with the erg and Bucky Days.
Bucky Days has been a long standing tradition for the womens' teams at Wisconsin. Over the course of a three day period, novice and varsity openweights and lightweights will compete in a series of fun events including a 6k, a four-mile run, a one-minute test, and everyone's favorite, the 2k. The athlete who earns the most points in each event will be crowned the winner of Bucky Days and reserves the right to gloat until next November.
What makes Bucky Days so unique and challenging in my opinion is the necessary combination of both physical and mental consistency. There is nothing easy about erg testing back-to-back over multiple days, but for many where it gets even harder is the mere IDEA of testing multiple days in a row. The thought of waking up and doing a timed run in the cold less than 12 hours after ripping a 6k may not sound or feel like a particularly fun way to spend your morning. And of course sprinting your brains out on the 2k (I have tested the fly and die technique a time or two) isn't for the faint of heart.
Bucky Days is a challenge unlike any other, and brings our team together as we sweat, sprint and burn up our legs in solidarity with one another. I can think of no better way to kick off our months of winter training than with what a wise and hardened 5th-year senior once described to me as "an ode to our fitness."
MADISON, Wis. -- The last week of fall rowing is finally upon us! Though high winds and poor weather conditions forced the cancellation of our final fall scrimmage against Minnesota, the rest of the week has shaken out just fine as there's no weather a splash jacket can't handle.
Next week things will be slowing down a little bit as we make our shift from a 20 hour to an eight-hour-a-week schedule, as mandated by the NCAA. For athletes and coaches, this means a more limited schedule of interaction and a break from outside competition. For us Badgers in particular, it means the docks come out until Mendota thaws (your guess is as good as mine), entering an exclusive relationship with the erg and Bucky Days.
Bucky Days has been a long standing tradition for the womens' teams at Wisconsin. Over the course of a three day period, novice and varsity openweights and lightweights will compete in a series of fun events including a 6k, a four-mile run, a one-minute test, and everyone's favorite, the 2k. The athlete who earns the most points in each event will be crowned the winner of Bucky Days and reserves the right to gloat until next November.
What makes Bucky Days so unique and challenging in my opinion is the necessary combination of both physical and mental consistency. There is nothing easy about erg testing back-to-back over multiple days, but for many where it gets even harder is the mere IDEA of testing multiple days in a row. The thought of waking up and doing a timed run in the cold less than 12 hours after ripping a 6k may not sound or feel like a particularly fun way to spend your morning. And of course sprinting your brains out on the 2k (I have tested the fly and die technique a time or two) isn't for the faint of heart.
Bucky Days is a challenge unlike any other, and brings our team together as we sweat, sprint and burn up our legs in solidarity with one another. I can think of no better way to kick off our months of winter training than with what a wise and hardened 5th-year senior once described to me as "an ode to our fitness."
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