Rowing Chat

Unfortunately not the UoL team (if that's what they are referring to) are the elite rowers of all the london universities. So literally the best of kings, ucl, ucl medical school, st georges etc... I'm a novice so not quite so elite. I've also injured my hip during the last race so I'm training but out of races until the bumps. Rowing on a french river sounds like heaven though

Do they not take any novices? Awww, they basically say that no-one can row before training camp (which I believe is true), I cannot wait to get there, that's such a shame!

They take novices. But you have to be willing to commit around 20 hours a week to training.

WeHorr confused me, but it was all good

I discovered yesterday that we didn't have 3 crews entered but 4, and that this fourth one was mine. We started 284, and got overtaken by, erm, around 4/5 boats, but finished 280. I don't know how that works but never mind, it was still quite enjoyable. I felt sorry for LSE, that also got overtaken by us as well as the other 4/5 boats and ended up 284 after starting 283. 7Ks is soul-destroying, though, can't wait for Regatta season!

Nice one . When are results announced? Our women are still on the way back from it which meant we had no cox this morning, coach had to do it .

I am dead after today's session, we were doing regatta style distances for training, its so different to heads. (Also, stroking for it is bloody hard when you start to get tired out :/).

The provisionals are online already. I'm definitely a short distance rower.

Also, I need advice, my arms are really weak and I really badly need to strengthen them. I can't do more than like 2 push ups and yesterday my non-feathering hand went reaaally stiff and painful and I could barely do anything with it. Are Powerballs good for improving the strength?

My legs, on the other hands, never hurt. Whether I'm on an erg or in a boat (racing or not), they're fine, am I not pushing hard enough?

The provisionals are online already. I'm definitely a short distance rower.

Also, I need advice, my arms are really weak and I really badly need to strengthen them. I can't do more than like 2 push ups and yesterday my non-feathering hand went reaaally stiff and painful and I could barely do anything with it. Are Powerballs good for improving the strength?

My legs, on the other hands, never hurt. Whether I'm on an erg or in a boat (racing or not), they're fine, am I not pushing hard enough?

We started 284, and got overtaken by, erm, around 4/5 boats, but finished 280. I don't know how that works

I'm still in the 2nd novice women VIII for WeHorr, turns out we don't have a 3rd VIII anymore and 3 girls from the 1st VIII will be in the 2nd senior women VIII. Tomorrow, weighting and then meeting for lightweight categories. Don't think I put on weight since January, and I was already below the limit, which means I won't have any weight to lose, unlike most other girls wanting to be lightweights.

I'll try to post videos of our 1st and 2nd VIIIs when I work out how my camera works , but for the moment, some boats racing at Trafford:

1st novice women VIII


2nd novice women VIII (my usual boat)


Novice men boats, no idea which one is which one:




And the boat with the best name ever:

Old post, but there was a boat named the Gerry Atric at my old rowing club, was that, per chance, a Hollingworth Lake rowing club boat? I used to scull at HLRC and when I turned 18 (they didn't usually allow <18s to row because of the developing muscles in one arm issue) I rowed for a couple of months before I had to stop because of A-level exams, I'm going to return there when I get back from Landan to lancashaaaaaaaaaaaaare for the holidays for some good old practice for next year.

Their website says the boat was at Trafford so I'm guessing that's the one

North of England Head for us

See you there

I will not be racing ( ), I'm just hoping they'll have one more sit in the minibus for me, though!