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19/12/06
No news is..... boring.There's been so little to report, due to the ridiculous river conditions. Looks like we might get a last pre-Christmas row this weekend. Al has updated his training schedule with the Christmas and New Years festive treats. Details have been received of the SARA Indoor Rowing event (Sunday 11 Feb - details), the Head of the Trent (Sunday 18 Feb) and the Tyne Head (3 March). The paper copies will go on the training room notice board this weekend. Before any of those, we should have the GUBC Western Head (27 Jan) and the SUBC Small Boats (10 Feb), both on the Clyde.... fingers crossed. |
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6/12/06
GRC Fours Head CANCELLED.Ronnie, Kenny and Clap went looking at the river today and it was not any better than it was two weeks ago. Christmas shopping, anyone? |
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Tideway Scullers HeadDistracted by the unrowable nature of our own river, I hadn't even realised Jonny was racing on the Tideway last week, finishing 75th overall. (Results.) (Picture opposite.) |
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22/11/06
GRC Fours Head postponed.Ronnie, Kenny and Clap went looking at the river today and it was not good. The decision has been made to postpone the event - so we can all go and do enjoyable things on Saturday instead. However - we willl need everyone to be prepared to muck in again on Saturday 9th December (i.e. 2 weeks later) when we hope to run the rescheduled event.
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Inverness Concentration 'Snapper Ron' of Aberdeen has loads of photos of Saturday and Sunday at Inverness. Inverness.No real good news in terms of the performances, then bad news when Sandy's car broke down towing - and he was doing us all a favour as he wasn't even racing. (Results - Sat., Sun.) B.Reid has provided some moby-snaps from Sunday. Fireworks pictures now posted here. Sorry for the delay - busy week on 4s Head entries. Fireworks party What a night! Many thanks to those of you who took the time to attended the fireworks GRC Fours Head - 25th November. Latest details on this page. AGMThis Wednesday - don't forget! |
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Sculler's Head Another fine day... Get out your magnifying glass and you might just see PT winning the Vet 'E' class in the recent race. (Moby snap, sorry - better ones are welcome.) Nice day, though! How to keep up with GRC GossIt's been pointed out that some newer members may not know that a lot of the GRC news is sent by email to 'GRCMembers' on Google groups.Members can choose to receive every email as it arrives, or can choose to receive a single daily email - or none at all. Every member can send and reply to email, and also view correspondence on-line; new and archived. Details on how to join and how it works are on this page. |
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Glasgow Rowing Club
The AGM will be held in the boat house on Wednesday 15th November. The Agenda and details of a proposed change to the club constitution can be found here on GRCMembers. |
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 VC quad - on the Clyde site NewMore photosJoe has added loads more to the '3 heads' photo gallery. |
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29/10/06
Respect our winners!Congratulations to Beth - who won the Women's R2 pennant and PT - who got back on the trail, winning the VE pennant at yesterday's Sculler's Head on the Clyde. |
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27/10/06
Extreme river flow - are you able?If the Scullers Head does go ahead tomorrow, it might be worth doing your own risk assessment, taking your ability into account before you go ahead and race. |
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25/10/06
Last chance for midweek evening rowing.Once the clocks go back on Sunday, the Wednesday evening outing will be only a memory! |
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24/10/06
GRC 4s Head 2006This year's 4s Head will be on Saturday 25 November.This is a big undertaking, with hundreds of competitors on the water at the same time. As usual, everyone will be needed to help out on the day - and until we know how well off we are for manpower, we won't be accepting entries from GRC crews! Here's last year's list, as a reminder of what's needed. |
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Other races.There are, of course, other head races coming up: at Aberdeen (4/5 Nov - with the SARA Awards on the Saturday evening), Inverness (11/12 Nov) and Stirling (2 Dec). |
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Atmospheric Beautiful, isn't it? Malcolm responded to the plea for photographs of the event on 14 Oct with this lovely view taken early on the day.  Mike winning VB Claire proudly provided this one and others of the GRC competitors in Div. 1. Results of Saturday's RacesIt looks like GRC won the following categories:
Well done, everybody! Any pictures? |
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 Autumn skulls!Read this explanatory note from Gavin. |
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Newly discovered Russell and Ben at Clyde Sprint Just found these on the Clyde Amateurs site; photos from their sprint regatta in August. Glasgow Rowing Club
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11/10/06
RACING!!!! - Draw for 3 Heads Races.The draw for the Clyde Amateurs '3 heads' is now on the SARA web site. Loads of GRC scullers in Race 1, only Jonny continuing into both other races - after his Boston success, he'll probably just want to keep going non-stop between start of race 1 and finish of race 3. Note - the first race is scheduled to start at 10:30, so the river will effectively be closed for normal training from then until the end of the event (which will be at least 3 hours later, but I can't find start times anywhere for the subsequent races). |
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Ultra-lightweight crew trials OK, mum, now I just need eight brothers and sisters. Yes, it IS better to start them young, but... On Saturday, the club formally congratulated Lindsay on her World
Championship exploits by naming the new eight "Lighty-Lins". Here is the first lot of pictures, with more to come - keep checking. |
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Alcune fotografie dal regolatore grasso* RCC Tevere Click on the photo for more images of how the other half row. Please come along, with your friends, family and pets, to the naming ceremony/barbie/club social on Saturday 7th October at 1 p.m. Let know that you're going to be there, and with how many others, please. We've got 10 Norwegians wanting to row with us that day, and Jonny's bringing the Swedish contingent; so it could be a multicultural learning experience. |
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No man and very few women can do that...... Bill grinding... you should see him bump! Click on the photo to see how the Annexe has progressed. The Boat-naming event that was planned for September 30th has been re-scheduled for OCTOBER 7th. More details here. |
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  PT.... and Jonny RESPECT is due! - to anyone daft enough to do this; to PT - who we all know has been giving this event some thought - and to Jonny, who decided to enter because he knew someone who would give him lift. PT turned in a respectable 4:45 in unpleasant headwind conditions. Which makes Jonny's 4:06 and WINNER OF SEN3 1x all the more astonishing! Results (by event) here. |
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15/9/06
IT'S FRIDAY, SO -
Wimmin - look at 'the Pink Press' Vets - look at 'Zimmer Frame Zombies' to find out what Saturday has in store for you. |
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11/9/06
Veterans II wants you to sign up for the 2007 experience! More details here. |
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8/9/06 FOR YOUR NEXT OUTING... Have a look at the SLUG article with the same headline - it's bound to make the long winter outings more fun! |
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VETERANS - time to start looking at the Vets' Noticeboard on a regular basis, to find out what outings are planned and what training is required. |
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5/9/06 Ciao-ciao-chowder? Is the Crab to be no more? For reasons beyond our control, 'the Crab' is no longer in a position to pick over the GRC scuttlebutt. This (first since Nov. 2005) was received last week: "Have been looking at the web. Do think you ought to remove the redundant crab unless anyone else wants to pick up the mantle of the noxious nipper." Any budding diarists out there? All applications in strictest confidence to |
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| 4/9/06 From the Far East A message for Lindsay: "The St Andrew Boat Club would like to pass on its congratulations to Lindsay Dick for a magnificent achievement in winning Bronze at the recent World Championships in the Womens Lightweight 4x. We wish her continued rowing success!" |
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| What about you - Do you want to row? Do you want to race? Do you prefer talking about it, rather than doing it? Do you want to cox? Do you want to train? Do you want to be left alone? Do you want to be coached? Do you want to be a coach ? ?
If any of the above applies to you, that's fine - but it will remain your own little secret unless you fill out a questionnaire! This is for all members! |
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| 1/9/06 Perhaps no surprise that Nithsdale was cancelled due to lack of entries. Note that the SPRC and St Andrew Head races have also been cancelled. See the 'events' board for forthcoming attractions.  On a lighter note: (With apologies to Scott Adams and Dilbert ©.) |
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| 27/8/06 First and last chance - to mention that the GRC Vet C four won the 'Open' coxed fours event at Clyde regatta, beating some slightly surprised looking younger people. Russell and Ben were narrowly beaten in Novice double sculls. Here's hoping for more GRC success today! |
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| 25/8/06 Scots at Dorney A few interesting snaps of some friends at Dorney. Paul Mackie has managed to get some more publicity for Lindsay while maintaining his own anonymity by having his photo taken in the dark. |
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REMEMBER THE BARBECUE?
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| 24/8/06 Clyde Regatta Draw The Clyde Amateurs are running their sprint regatta this Saturday. Racing is from 10 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. Here is the draw. Take care- the river will be busier than usual. Do not go downstream of the King's bridge between 9:30 and 3:30 on Saturday.
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| Look at the 'Events' board to see a calendar of upcoming regattas and other events. | |
| 22/8/06 Dr. Luuurve, I presume? No doubt worried that we might sicken without his diagnosis, the "Doctor of Lurve" has sent us a link to "Big Ross's Travel Blog". |
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Some members are apparently still in the dark about the Season 2006-2007 Questionnaire. More details here. Download your copy here. This is for all members! |
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| 18/8/06 Last orders Clyde Regatta entries close tomorrow. Contact NOW if you want to race. |
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| 17/8/06 Crackers? thinks you might want to do this. |
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| World Championships In case you've been asleep for a few months:
Anyone interested in travelling to Dorney to lend some support? Why not start a discussion on the GRC Google group? |
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| 16/8/06 Faskally '06 Click here for details of this year's Loch Faskally coaching weekend, from 20-22 October. More details. |
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| 15/8/06 Lindsay IS racing at the World Championships! No details yet, but Al says there may be heats, rep and final |
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| 14/8/06 Racing.... ........do we still do that? No GRC entries for Inverness this Saturday. Clyde regatta is on 26 Aug and entries now close on Saturday 19th. |
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| 10/8/06 Lindsay racing at World Championships? Although the crew list was published yesterday, the final decision is yet to be made whether Lindsay's lightweight 4x will represent GB at the World Champs in Dorney on 20-27 Aug. |
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9/8/06 More racing!
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| 7/8/06 Extension news Thanks to those people who assisted George, Bill and Sandy on Saturday. See what you achieved, opposite and here. |
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 Lins at Lucerne Thanks to Al for the photo.  Dan on GB duty The Summer Barbie will not be on Saturday 12th August. A new date will be announced soon. More here. |
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| 2/8/06 Slash and burn? This Saturday, we will be doing a bit of chopping and lopping of trees, to clear some space for the new 'boathouse extension'. Many hands make light work! Bring your gardening gloves. Tools will be provided |
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| 31/7/06 Coupe de la Jeunesse Looks like Daniel raced as the 'reserve' at the Coupe and won both his races. GB won the match outright, easily. | |
| Help! is looking for additional hands to help run the bar at the Commonwealth Regatta this weekend: 10:15 to 17:15 both days. |
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| More RACING? Details are now in for the Nithsdale Regatta on 2 September - poster, events and information. Contact if you want to compete. |
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| 26/7/06 Anyone want to RACE? Details are now in for the Inverness Sprint on Aug. 19. Entry form, Event Poster and Rules of the Event Contact if you want to compete. |
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| Don't forget the Summer Barbecue. - "the Glorious Twelfth", i.e. two weeks away. |
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| 24/7/06 Quick update In the last two weeks:
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| Lucerne After the heats, Lindsay goes into the rep - only 2.3 sec. behind GBR1 who go straight to the semi. - Semi-final for Lindsay! - SF1, @ 2:21 (BST).
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Talkin Tarn Regatta Russell and Dunc  Kat sculling |
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| 7/7/06 No Talkin' ? Sorry - forgot to mention last weekend's regatta. Russell and Duncan won through to the semi of Nov 2x but were beaten there. Katrina lost to 'big, muscly' scullers in both Ju 12 1x events.... and FC and TK got lost. |
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| 6/7/06 14,15,16 July - Nat. Champs, Strathclyde Park. The draw is up; looks like only Jonny (OL1x) and Al (O2-) representing GRC. Of course, Lindsay is busy on GB business this weekend (see below) and Daniel is also chasing GB selection. |
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| New boat Raffle. Tickets will be on sale this weekend - get your £10 ready! |
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| 4/7/06 Lucerne this weekend. Lindsay's GB representation continues with Lucerne regatta. Looks like the LW2x crews have been changed; Lindsay is in GBR 2, but with a different partner. Racing will be on Fri, Sat and Sun.
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| 30/6/06 Summer Barbecue. Yes, it's time to get on the summer frock and the slingbacks - well, so Ronnie tells me, but I'll stay casual myself. |
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Henley
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| Henley Big Blade has lots more like this of Daniel at Henley.  Walton/GRC racing at Henley |
