Suffolk Indoor Rowing Championships.
Saturday April 11th, Woodbridge Community Hall
The inaugural Suffolk Indoor Rowing Championships will take place at the club house on Saturday 11th April. Racing to commence at 11am.
Team and individual prizes for all categories.
Open men and women (including lightweight categories) - 2000m
Veteran men and women - 2000m
Under 18 junior boys and girls - 2000m
Under 15 junior boys and girls - 4 minutes.
Teams of four with lowest aggregate score to win category. For under 15 teams the measure will be total distance travelled.
Entry fee: £5 per seat. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Deben Rowing Club’, either in advance or on the day.
Entries by email to: timothy.earnshaw@thomsonreuters.com giving full name, event entered and date of birth. Plus name of club if appropriate.
Or by snail-mail to:
Tim Earnshaw
The Old Stables
Quayside
Woodbridge
IP12 1BH
A warm Deben welcome guaranteed with full catering on-site during the afternoon. Great Suffolk beer will also be found at local hostelries for post race celebrations!
A timetable of events will be posted once entries have been received.
Location; Woodbridge Community Hall, Station Road, Woodbridge, IP12. Just off the A12
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=627202&y=248787&z=110&sv=station+road&st=6&tl=Map+of+Station+Road,+Woodbridge,+Suffolk,+IP12&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
Easy parking at the site.
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
CWL, 22 February, 2009
Ten brave souls with eight boats ventured off for a full day's racing on the Cam. It was a relatively warm and thankfully calm day; there had been a stiff head wind at the first leg in January which had made racing a bit more challenging!
The junior members showed the way. Here are a few highlights:
Division 2 (10:40)
Clio continues to impress in the WJ 1x class. Clio was the fastest female junior on the day and third fastest women's single! Clio is now within 9 seconds of the overall J 1x leader.
Em and Francesca entered in a J16 2x. Francesca has only been rowing a few months and it was her first experience in a competitive race. Under Em's steady helm they completed the course in just over 14mins, chased down the river by Terry and a posse of spectators on push bikes. A fantastic result.
The gentlemen's Vet E4+ (John, David, Neil and Nick) put in a solid performance and improved on their time in the first leg.
Lastly, the old Vet Cs - Tim and I - plugged it out in the singles. I am trying to remember how Tim described my stroke in the bar afterwards... "physical but effective"? Which I think is another way of saying that it lacks refinement! I actually had one of my best results to date, clocking up the fastest Vet C 1x time of the day!
Division 4 (14:00)
Chris Lawrence entered his first competitive race (J16 1x) and Terry said that he got faster and faster as he travelled down the river! He led a few of us more experienced rowers home!
For a full set of results see:
http://www.cra-online.net/results/2009/wl_results.htm
It was a great day and I am sure most of us will be back for the final round on the 8th March. Why don't you join us?!
Malcolm Pidd
The junior members showed the way. Here are a few highlights:
Division 2 (10:40)
Clio continues to impress in the WJ 1x class. Clio was the fastest female junior on the day and third fastest women's single! Clio is now within 9 seconds of the overall J 1x leader.
Em and Francesca entered in a J16 2x. Francesca has only been rowing a few months and it was her first experience in a competitive race. Under Em's steady helm they completed the course in just over 14mins, chased down the river by Terry and a posse of spectators on push bikes. A fantastic result.
The gentlemen's Vet E4+ (John, David, Neil and Nick) put in a solid performance and improved on their time in the first leg.
Lastly, the old Vet Cs - Tim and I - plugged it out in the singles. I am trying to remember how Tim described my stroke in the bar afterwards... "physical but effective"? Which I think is another way of saying that it lacks refinement! I actually had one of my best results to date, clocking up the fastest Vet C 1x time of the day!
Division 4 (14:00)
Chris Lawrence entered his first competitive race (J16 1x) and Terry said that he got faster and faster as he travelled down the river! He led a few of us more experienced rowers home!
For a full set of results see:
http://www.cra-online.net/results/2009/wl_results.htm
It was a great day and I am sure most of us will be back for the final round on the 8th March. Why don't you join us?!
Malcolm Pidd
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Cambridge Winter League, 2009
Here is a link to the results of the January leg of the Winter League:
http://www.cra-online.net/results/2009/wl_results.htm
http://www.cra-online.net/results/2009/wl_results.htm
Friday, 9 January 2009
Pudding Races, 2009
Happy New Year!
If you had won two Henley medals, what would there be left to win? World Cup Olympic Gold in the single sculls (could do that in one leg), Commonwealth? No! What you would really, really want is the coveted DRC Plum Pudding.
And thus our newest member, Stephen Fowler, girded the proverbial loins on the coldest Deben day for quite some time. Ably assisted by John 'I'm-just-surfing-in-the-bow-seat' Churcher, the noble pair romped to victory.
Conditions were tricky (when are they not on our beloved river?!), but a good time was had by all and we adjourned to the DRC 'bar'...
This year's project is to replace the crumbling edifice with a purpose-built clubhouse which will be fit for purpose.
Happy New Year to All!
Tim Earnshaw
(DRC Chairman)
If you had won two Henley medals, what would there be left to win? World Cup Olympic Gold in the single sculls (could do that in one leg), Commonwealth? No! What you would really, really want is the coveted DRC Plum Pudding.
And thus our newest member, Stephen Fowler, girded the proverbial loins on the coldest Deben day for quite some time. Ably assisted by John 'I'm-just-surfing-in-the-bow-seat' Churcher, the noble pair romped to victory.
Conditions were tricky (when are they not on our beloved river?!), but a good time was had by all and we adjourned to the DRC 'bar'...
This year's project is to replace the crumbling edifice with a purpose-built clubhouse which will be fit for purpose.
Happy New Year to All!
Tim Earnshaw
(DRC Chairman)
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Walton Small Boats Head, 2008
Hi!
Just a quick post, as have received some news from Clio's racing at the weekend. She was at the Walton Small Boats Head...and won both of her events!!
Clio was 1st in the WS4 single (by just 1 second!!) and also 1st in the WJ16, with the fastest time of all the junior races.
This is really fantastic and I hope to have more details to post here soon...
(PS - just imagine if she hadn't been coming to circuits and had lost by 1 second!)
Just a quick post, as have received some news from Clio's racing at the weekend. She was at the Walton Small Boats Head...and won both of her events!!
Clio was 1st in the WS4 single (by just 1 second!!) and also 1st in the WJ16, with the fastest time of all the junior races.
This is really fantastic and I hope to have more details to post here soon...
(PS - just imagine if she hadn't been coming to circuits and had lost by 1 second!)
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
GB Junior Trials, Boston, 22nd November, 2008
Chris Jillings reports from Boston...
"A strong, bitterly cold North-westerly swept across the fens on Saturday morning as the country's best Junior men and Junior women assembled for the first Long Distance trials of the season. To the outside eye it looked just like another sculling head - an orderly queue taking their turn to boat and paddle up to the start, but the nervous tension in the athletes was very evident.
This was Clio's first foray into the GB selection process and she performed extremely well on the day. In the morning the Junior men had paddled the 5K to the start, marshalled in groups and then used the huge tail wind to help them home, 5K back down the course to Boston Rowing Club. By the time the women boated white horses were topping the waves in the finishing straight - Ahh, Deben conditions we thought, but the organisers bottled it and shortened their run to 3100 metres, to finish just before the final downwind leg!
Clio sculled powerfully and kept long in the tail wind, just holding her rating below the official restriction cap of 28 - tough these selection trials! With just about every top Junior in the country present, she finished 7th in her class of 18, and we look forward to going back for the next round in February - hopefully! Well done."
Yes, very well done, Clio!!
Monday, 17 November 2008
Norfolk Sculls, Sat 15th November 2008
On Saturday Clio, Chris, Em, Jamie, John, Malcolm, Neil, Tim and I all went off to Norwich to race in the Norfolk Sculls head. At 4600m, the main course is one of the longest in our area, and there are plenty of tricky corners and willow trees for scullers to steer round along the way. There is also a shorter course for juniors and novices.I had the pleasure of spectating on the bank for the first division, so saw Em, Clio, Tim, Chris and Malcolm speeding past in their singles...as ever there was stiff competition between the latter three! Then, in the afternoon the Cawthorns teamed up in a 2x and it was also my turn to take to the water in a double with Malcolm, while Clio teamed up with some girls from Norwich in a quad. John also joined in the 1x battle with Tim and Chris, while Em gave the shorter course her best shot again.
The Norwich club put on the usual great selection of food after the event, but even lots of cake didn't soften the blow of loosing out in the S3 mix doubles by a mere 3 seconds!!
Full results can be found on the NRC homepage: http://www.norwichrowingclub.co.uk/
Well done to everyone...and let's see if we can build on these results at the Carrow Cup in a few weeks' time.
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