Once a year, the Row New York staff escapes the city together for three days of planning and reflection. Evenings are reserved for cooking and rowing (see Marinela above in the single...that's Previn's head a few feet from her starboard oar, and that's Melissa and me on the raft). We spent this year's retreat at a small and sloping house (you got used to the steep incline across the living room after the first night) in Gloversville, NY in a house called Hiawatha.I love this tradition because it really gives us the opporutunity to spend large amounts of time figuring out what went well over the year and what we can do better next year withouth the interruption of cell phones, land lines, emails, texts, tweets, etc.. It's also fun having the evenings with such a great staff!
