My Fitness Journey
I finally took my single down to Janousek at the end of October to have it repaired. The insurance company took forever to pay out to cover the repair costs, but it was finally all sorted just before Christmas. Today was the first day I had available to go and collect it. Back at the…
Bedford Small Boats Head 13/10/2024. The event went ahead despite some high river stream and recent flooding. Masters C/D/E double sculls (time trial). Stewart P and I are Masters D (50-55 average age) racing for Staines Boat Club Town Bridge: Butterfly Bridge: Last stroke before the finish: Official time was 7:32 for the 1,950m course,…
Staines Regatta 27/07/2024 Our home regatta, where I am competing in a double and a quad on Saturday, we also entered a double for Sunday, but our entry was rejected due to a lack of competition. Masters E/F 2x semi final with Mark F (850m) Staines Boat Club (E) vs Eton Excelsior RC (E). Managed…
Molesey Regatta 20/7/2024 Jonathan K and myself racing in the masters C double sculls quarter final (850m) Staines Boat Club (C) vs Walbrook RC (C). Congratulations on the win to Walbrook. Unfortunately I managed to inspect the local foliage 250m into the course and lost us 15 seconds, we were already down by 2 1/2…
Kingston Regatta 13/07/2024 Mark F and myself racing in the Masters double Sculls semi-final (1000m): Staines BC (E) vs Kingston RC (E) Congratulations on the win to Kingston. Unfortunately we couldn’t ‘get it together’ on the day and were constantly fighting the boat and the river. River was very ‘choppy’ but despite that, we couldn’t…
A wonderful day at Henley Royal Regatta on, Thursday 4th July, with a number of other members of Staines Boat Club You may notice that I am not wearing Staines Green, I am wearing the original colours for Wycliffe College, the school where I learned to row. Wycliffe A dominating in the Diamond Jubilee Challenge…
Sunday morning I was out in a fine double with Jonathan, working on our stability. Jonathan has a bit of a ‘lean’ to bow side which is quite painful for him to correct, as a result I tend to lean to stroke side to counter balance. This is not ideal, but better than the boat…
Afternoon division of day two at Monmouth Regatta, 750m sprint races masters 2x competition for me. We met our competition from Gloucester earlier in the day and watched them compete in the masters 4x category, yesterday they won the masters 4x, however this morning it was not to be, they lost in the final to…
Day two of Monmouth Regatta, 750m sprint races today and I set off from my folks home bright and early once again. The forecast for today was originally thunderstorms, so hopefully those pass us by and we can have some racing. I don’t have any races this morning, I am only racing this afternoon, but…
Monmouth Regatta is run over 2 days with 2 divisions each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, you can enter both divisions, but cannot enter multiple boats in a single division. The Saturday distance is 1,500m, the Sunday distance is 750m We originally tried to enter open 4- for the Saturday…