the crew regularly did a workout of six times 500 meters as hard as possible. “And one afternoon, we did our sixth and turned around to row back to the boathouse, and the coach says, ‘No, go to the start again. You’re doing another one.’ So we did another 500. And he said go back. And we did another four. And you know, no one would have believed that we could do that, if you’d asked us.” That lesson, he recalled, stuck with him—first as an athlete and later as a scientist: “You have to teach athletes, somewhere in their careers, that they can do more than they think they can.”
