By the way, The W. stands for William. At the time my sleep deprived parents were completing the requisite birth certificate related paperwork in the hospital for their first born child it was quickly decided that Todd would be my name but that Todd William didn't resonate. Eventually, I came to like the idea of using my ignored given name in an abbreviated manner but made the mistake of creating all of my frequent flyer programs using 'Todd.' That was ok until the TSA finally caught up with me a few years ago and I missed a flight while they ascertained over a lengthy phone call with other TSA types that William Todd Myrick could not fly on a ticket issued by the American Airlines Advantage account owned by a 'Todd Myrick', even though I'd done so to the tune previously of about 600,000 miles.

 

But I'm wobbling off course here. About me; I've spent my entire career in IT marketing and have made a good run of it all the while kicking myself for never having taken the time to create my own site where I could showcase my photography and appetite for the written word, a keen quality commonly found in the makeup of the marketing type.

 

What you may be wondering is; is this a blog about rowing? The answer is no. However as I have set about the work of finishing my first novel, which includes a back story on rowing, I thought of many of the rowing terms I've become familiar with and frankly speaking, 'Catch Point' resonated with me as an almost cathartic description of my eagerness to blog publicly. In so far as the sport of rowing is concerned I became greatly interested in it after reading Daniel James Brown's 'The Boys in the Boat", the awe-inspiring story of nine Americans and their epic quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and it helps that I live near the river town that host 'The Head of the Hooch Regatta', held annually the first of every November in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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The 'catch point', in rowing speak, is that point in the stroke where the blade of the oar enters the water. It's not the very beginning of the stroke but it is crucial as the resulting drive from each rower will be different if the blade angle and depth are not equal.

 

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Thanks for stopping by and All Good Things to You

Todd