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Another fantastic GRC (and Clyde, EUBC, GUBC and SUBC !) effort at the Women's Head of River Race.
Our Novice girls beat all comers - 63 other novice crews - to win, finishing 98th overall.
Wow.
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The GRC composite crews at Women's Tideway were respectively 1st and 4th of the 12 all-Scottish boats entered.
The Novice crew WON their category, beating 17 Novice Club and 46 Novice Academic crews and jumping from a start position of 280 to finish 98th overall.
Photos from BigBlade & from Birdman Photography.
(Thanks to D.Biddulph)
| Start | Status | Crew | Finish | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Sen | Clyde/EUBC/ GRC/GUBC | 20 | 19:38.01 |
| 24 | Int3 | Clydesdale ARC A | 35 | 20:04.08 |
| 50 | Int3 | EUBC A | 38 | 20:07.27 |
| 95 | Int3 | Aberdeen University BC | 129 | 21:12.15 |
| 131 | Int3 | GUBC A | 120 | 21:08.70 |
| 167 | Nov Acad | GUBC B | 267 | 22:50.69 |
| 179 | Nov Acad | EUBC B | 256 | 22:37.18 |
| 201 | Elite | Canford/ Glasgow Academy/ Gloucester/ Latymer/ Nottingham/ Runcorn/ Stratford | 14 | 19:29.48 |
| 225 | Int2 | Clydesdale ARC B | 100 | 20:54.69 |
| 234 | Int3 | Clydesdale ARC C | 264 | 22:47.42 |
| 235 | Int3 | EUBC/St Andrew | 225 | 22:12.57 |
| 272 | Nov Club | Aberdeen BC | 238 | 22:23.84 |
| 280 | Nov Acad WINNER |
GRC/GUBC/SUBC | 98 | 20:53.94 |
The club is sending two composite crews to Women's HoRR this weekend, with starting positions almost book-ending the race:
WISH THEM LUCK!
Boat loading today, Wednesday, around 6pm.
| Mar | 6 | |
| 13 | Women's Head of the River (Thames), 3pm Entries close: Fri. 19th Feb (OR AT 300 ENTRIES) | |
| 20 | Scottish Schools Head, Dullatur | |
| North of England Head (Chester) | ||
| 27 | HEAD OF THE RIVER (Thames) | |
| Sun 28 | Vesta Veterans Head (Thames) | |
| Apr | 17 |  |
| 24 | Strathclyde Park Regatta (Kenny's favourite) |
(From the SARA (d'oh!) web site, and from David Biddulph's calendar.)
Roy Sinclair ('Dad') has posted some good pictures of GRC crews on the Inverness web site.
Kevin is promising great numbers of images on-line soon.
There are photos from Div.2, like this, on Niall Darroch's web site.
What will people think? - we enter 4 eights events and go and win all of them. That's just greedy.
CARC 8s and 4s Head Event WINNERS
Full results.
Oddly, there's very little about the event on Clydesdale's web site and only a very brief report on Hello! SARA. Funny, that.
.jpg "Wild mink on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow Green")
Nice to see SUBC win WRes2 4+, with a crew including Shona and Jenni, both rowing in next week's Women's Tideway composite crew.
This event is one year on from the first-ever race for 3 of the WRes2 winners - Kate, Olivia and Joanna all took part in this as their first competitive outing, last year.
This Saturday we'll have 4 eights, 1 quad and 4 coxed fours racing in the 2 divisions of the “61th” Clydesdale Head.
The draw for the 2010 race includes a number of Scottish crews.
| Start | Status | Crew |
|---|---|---|
| 101 | Int 2 | Edinburgh UBC I |
| 187 | Int 3 | Glasgow UBC I |
| 204 | Nov | Aberdeen UBC |
| 207 | Int 2 | Clydesdale I |
| 208 | Int 3 | Strathclyde UBC I |
| 251 | Int 3 | Dundee UBC |
| 292 | Int 3 | RGUBC |
| 296 | Int 3 | Clydesdale II |
| 302 | Int 3 | Glasgow UBC III |
| 328 | Int 3 | Deeside Scullers |
| 338 | Int 3 | Heriot-Watt UBC I |
| 341 | Nov | Edinburgh UBC I I |
| 363 | Nov | Glasgow UBC II |
| 365 | Nov | Heriot-Watt UBC II |
| 382 | Int 3 | Strathclyde UBC II |
As always, corrections are welcome: send them to
Coastal rowing boat kits (Scotsman, 27 Feb)
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Following this week's snow-and-rain fall, the river level has leapt up. It's just at the 'no-rowing' point today. High tide is at mid-day on Saturday, which should make outings in the morning easier than those after, but it might be a 'musical ergos' weekend!
The draw for the 2010 race has been published. Lots of Scottish crews including 2 GRC composite crews, starting 4th and 280th (you have to earn that position!).
| Start | Status | Crew |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Sen | Clyde/ Edinburgh University/ Glasgow/ Glasgow University |
| 24 | Int3 | Clydesdale Amateur RC A |
| 50 | Int3 | Edinburgh University BC A |
| 95 | Int3 | Aberdeen University BC |
| 131 | Int3 | Glasgow University BC A |
| 167 | Nov Acad | Glasgow University BC B |
| 179 | Nov Acad | Edinburgh University BC B |
| 201 | Elite | Canford/ Glasgow Academy/ Gloucester/ Latymer/ Nottingham/ Runcorn/ Stratford |
| 225 | Int2 | Clydesdale Amateur RC B |
| 234 | Int3 | Clydesdale Amateur RC C |
| 235 | Int3 | Edinburgh University/St Andrew |
| 272 | Nov Club | Aberdeen BC |
| 280 | Nov Acad | Glasgow/ Glasgow University/ Strathclyde University |
As always, corrections are welcome: send them to
.jpg "GRC WRes2 2x at SUBC Small Boats")
Photos from Malcolm and his snap- dragoon Peter, on Malcolm's Picasa site.
And David Nolan's images are now up on Flickr:
A cold day, but good racing conditions, and very photogenic. Solid GRC performances across the board in both divisions.
Thanks to Graeme:
WinnersInverness Eights Head - CANCELLED.
| Feb | 13 | |
| 13&14 | ||
| 20 | ||
| 20&21 | ||
| 27 | ||
| Tyne Head [changed from 20 Jan] | ||
| Sun 28 | Head of the Trent, Nottingham [changed from 14 Feb] | |
| Mar | 6 | Clydesdale Head (poster) Entries close: 28th Feb. |
| 13 | Women's Head of the River (Thames), 3pm Entries close: Fri. 19th Feb (OR AT 300 ENTRIES) | |
| 20 | Scottish Schools Head, Dullatur | |
| North of England Head (Chester) | ||
| 27 | HEAD OF THE RIVER (Thames) | |
| Sun 28 | Vesta Veterans Head (Thames) | |
| Apr | 17 | |
(From the SARA (d'oh!) web site, and from David Biddulph's calendar.)
Our friends at the Gordon St. Branch of the Yorkshire Building Society have made a further generous contribution to Glasgow Rowing Club as sponsors of the 2010 Glasgow Spring Regatta.
If you or your company or organisation would like to help Glasgow Rowing Club as a sponsor, please contact .
more informationThey say the camera never lies, and there is photo-evidence of some shameful behaviour at Saturday night's Burns do. What some people will do for an extra helping.
At Dorney today, on the first day of the 2-day trials format, Sam demonstrated quality and consistency in finishing 10th in the first, time-trial stage of Lightweight 1x. He then matched that performance, finishing 5th in the semi-final race. The top 3 from each semi will be racing in tomorrow's final.
Day 2 Update: Sam remained rock-solid, finishing 4th in the 'B' final, i.e 10th overall. Iain was 18th overall, Polly was 4th in the 'G' final. Just to clarify, these are the positions within the Elite category, i.e. all 3 finished significantly higher in their U-23 rankings.
Are you being secretive about your Haggis'n Hearts habit?
PLEASE tell NOW if you are intending to go to tomorrow's Burns-Valentine night - the caterers need to know how many guests there will be!
GRC will be represented at the GB trials this weekend by Iain, Polly and Sam.
It's Official - Mr Walker will be our sole representative at Aberdeen.
Can you help?
Some witnesses indicate that both items were last seen in Mornington Crescent.
Tickets are still on sale for the now-traditional (2nd year) GRC Burns-Valentine Supper Evening.
* Dress style originated by M.Mouse.
All 4 GRC crews were dominant at the GUBC 2010 Western Head.
Photos from Malcolm, on his Picasa site.
There's also a movie blockbuster of epic proportions from Dreggy on YouTube.
World Record holder Matthias' photos are now on Picasa (they've been SuperMonkeyed): Western Head by Matthias Auer.
Results (both divisions)
* OK, OK... we only won the events we entered.
Update
David Nolan has posted his photos:
Snapper Ron has an album of Photos from the Indoor Rowing Champs, featuring Olivia, Helena, Don and Uncle.
There are more photos on Niall Darroch's web site.
A small but dedicated group of GRC rowers made the journey to Edinburgh to compete at the Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships. Powerful performances were produced by Fergus, Jules, Kate, Don and Uncle (loved the handshake!), but the stars in our firmament were Olivia who won Bronze in the girls' under-16 category and sister Helena who was the convincing winner of the girls' under-14 race.
Proud dad Peter (a.k.a. CaptionManUK) has posted video of the girls' performance, and yesterday's winning GRC crews at the Western, on YouTube:
We've also been sent some photos of 3 of Saturday's crews from Matthias Auer, the man who regained his erg-marathon World Record (avg. pace 1:45 for 42k!).
Matthias' photos are on Picasa: Western Head by Matthias Auer.
The 'Western' Head poster promised a showdown for "...the biggest guns in the West". Don't know about that, but although we're still waiting for the smoke to clear (no published results yet) news is that all four GRC crews were left standing tall at the end - played 4, won 4.
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From the P&J - Pupils get rowing machines health boost
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Four GRC crews taking part - Provisional draw
Record entries, apparently - so the youngest competitors are starting at 9:30.....
Updated information:
From the Borders Herald : Jack rows into Institute of Sport .
Tickets are on sale for the now-traditional (2nd year) GRC Burns-Valentine Supper Evening.
* Dress style originated by M.Mouse.
Paul Mackie (again) spotted this familiar location in the background of the BMI web site.
Photo by David Farrell
By any measurement, 2009 was a good year for our club.
Let's make 2010 a great one.
There are other web sites?
The Tideway Slug has gone quiet recently, but the long-running series of 'interesting' coaching comments has been collated into a single page. Language a bit risqué, but worth it.
From Rachel Quarrel's Rowing Service:Also from FISA, notes on the recent changes in the WADA anti-doping rules and list of prohibited substances. The FISA anti-doping page remains by far the most useful and comprehensive resource for rowers.
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