" By Royal Brougham’s calculations, done that night on a bar napkin, in four years of college rowing, each of them had rowed approximately 4,344 miles, far enough to take him from Seattle to Japan. Along the way, each had taken roughly 469,000 strokes with his oar, all in preparation for only 28 miles of actual collegiate racing. "

― Daniel James Brown , The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics