Posts about Rowing

• Another week, another pot

  • 17
  • August
  • 2008
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  This was the weekend of the Warwick regatta; a fun event as you can’t win points and Stratford usually cleans up the pots. Its a mainly local crew affair run on a 500m stretch of narrow river. For all the…

• Hattrick of pots

  • 12
  • August
  • 2008
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  Three pots in three weeks. St Neots (2+), Henley Town and Visitors (4+) and Stourport (2x).

• Stourport Summer Regatta

  • 11
  • August
  • 2008
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  Saturday

  Distance: 1000m

  Luckily the draw meant I had a late start on Saturday. I say luckily because it had rained non stop all morning, turning the event into a wet and muddy quagmire.

  I met up with Sandy and Steve, who’d made…

• Henley Town and Visitors 2008

  • 03
  • August
  • 2008
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  Event Details

  1k Upstream

  Crew

  • Mike – stroke
  • Myself- 3
  • Sandy McGilvroy – 2
  • Gordie – bow
  • Jennifer Smith- cox

  Results

  03.46 – 1st in Semi Final

  04.00 – 1st in final

  Race Report

  What an awesome day! I really wasn’t expecting to be as competitive as we…

• St Neots Summer Regatta

  • 27
  • July
  • 2008
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  Saturday

  Distance: 1000m

  Started the day racing in a single, for the first time. The condition were perfect but I still found myself with serious butterflies.

  The start wasn’t good but enough to keep me in contact. Not long after the start the…

• Back into training

  • 16
  • July
  • 2008
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  It back to serious rowing training in preparation for St Neots. My hands have gotten soft from all this cycling and I was left with some awesome blisters after and outing in the pair yesterday.

  St Neots is going to be…

• Stratford Regatta

  • 22
  • June
  • 2008
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  It started out wet and miserable but ended up being a good day. Spent the morning helping out on marshal points and doing tea runs.

  The novice double had an outing but unfortunately we were bumped up to S3. We were…

• Worcester Regatta – No longer a novice!

  • 18
  • May
  • 2008
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  Event Details

  750 meters up stream.

  Crew Senior 4 Double

  • Myself
  • Sandy McGilvroy – bow

  Novice 4

  • Steve Henry – stroke
  • James May- 3
  • Sandy McGilvroy – 2
  • Myself – bow

  Race Report Senior 4 Double

  Early morning start yet again!…

• Worcester Training

  • 11
  • May
  • 2008
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  We’re entered in for the Novice 4 and Senior 4 double at Worcester next week. Training ion both are going well. The double is remarkably balanced; I think the core stability work is paying off wonders.

  We’ve not managed as many…

• Wallingford Regatta

  • 05
  • May
  • 2008
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  Event Details

  2k on 7 lane lake
  Crew

  • Steve Henry – stroke
  • James May- 3
  • Sandy McGilvroy – 2
  • Myself – bow
  • Jennifer Smith- cox

  Results

  07.30 – 2rd in heat

  07.27 – 3rd in final
  Race Report

  Another early start, eugh!…

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