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(it's Bastille Day today)
This weekend, Strathclyde Park is the venue for the British Rowing Championships.
GRC has a number of athletes taking part. The following list may not be complete, apologies for any errors.
| Name | Event | First race | Final |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kate | WJu16 1x | Friday 12:55 | Sat.14:44 |
| Olivia | WJu16 1x | Friday 12:55 | Sat.14:44 |
| Olivia and Emma | WJu16 2x | Friday 13:30 | Sat.16:09 |
| Al Sarahs | U23 1x | Sat.10:00 (TT) | Sun.15:27 |
| Steph (GUBC) | W 1x | Sat 10:50 | Sun.12:39 |
| Amanda | W 1x | Sat 10:50 | Sun.12:39 |
| 'Cousin Willie' & Dreggy | Ltwt 2x | Sat 11:15 | Sun.13:09 |
| Matt & 'Daddy' | Op 2- | Sat 12:20 | Sun.13:39 |
| Jen Alex & Amanda | W 2x | Sat 15:15 | Sun.15:45 |
| Iain | Ltwt 1x | Sat 16:50 | Sun.16:09 |
The full - provisional - draw is here.
A number of GRC athletes will be rowing in Scottish colours at this year's Home Intenational Regatta and the 4-yearly Commonwealth Regatta.
This is in addition to our 2 representatives at GB under-23, Polly and Sam. The World Championships U-23 regatta is later this month in Belarus.
More details after the weekend.
At Nithsdale, Olivia won Ju18 doubles, along with Emma from Semple.
At Henley this week, in addition to the 2 crews mentioned below, GRC will also be supporting Sam who is racing in the Prince of Wales in the Agecroft Rowing Club and Durham University boat - GB U23 squad.
Katharina's cousin Heike would love to wave her flag in support of Jonny, Chris, Jen and Sam this week, but has had to stay a bit longer in South Africa.
Shame, that.
More top-class racing!
There are a number of ways to keep up-to-date with Henley results. Details are on this linked page.
The HRR Twitter page is an easy way to check on the latest news, including live race results. There will be a link to it from this page once the regatta is under way.
* It's a joke.
GRC crews were racing last weekend at two of the UK's top regattas-
Good start for Irish women at Henley
NB - there's a list of 'rowing' news items to be found every day under the appropriate link in the left-hand column.
...if any was needed, that Coxes are the closest thing we have to Almighty Beings in rowing.
- the photo is part of the extensive collection from the 2010 Scottish Champs by Snapper Ron.
The draw for Marlow Regatta is available online http://bit.ly/cCi9CJ
Rowing upgraded to optional sport for Commonwealth Games - worldrowing.com
| June | 5 | Hexham Entries closed. |
| 5 - 6 | Metropolitan RESULTS PHOTOS RowTV | |
| 12 - 13 | Scottish Championships PROV draw. | |
| 13 | BR Masters Champs (ie Vets) | |
| 18 - 20 | Henley Women's Regatta UPDATED Draw, TT crews, TT info, News. | |
| 19 - 20 | Marlow | |
| 25 | HRR Qualifying | |
| 26 | Nithsdale (Dumfries) poster, information and events list. | |
| July | 30 - 4 | Henley Royal Regatta |
| 3 | Talkin Tarn | |
| 9 - 10 | Henley Vets | |
| 16 - 18 | British Championships Entries close on Monday 5 July at 3pm |
(From the SARA (d'oh!) web site, and from David Biddulph's calendar.)
Update
'Snapper Ron' has published his photos, including the astonishing one of Marianne running across the loch to escape J-Lo's smelly pits.
David Nolan's are on his Flickr site - there are slide shows of GRC crews:
First photos are appearing: Malcolm has an album of images from the early part of Saturday, while Peter has some from the later part of the regatta.
GRC Wins and places -
| Saturday | Sunday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M 1x | 2nd (JL) | M2x | 1st | ||
| & | 4th (Iain) | & | 5th | ||
| & | 8th (JS) | & | 6th | ||
| WJu18 2x | 1st (comp) | WJu18 1x | 8th (Olivia) | ||
| W 4+ | 2nd (comp) | MLw 2- | 3rd | ||
| MLw 2x | 1st | W2- | 2nd | ||
| WInt 8+ | 1st (comp) | W 1x | 5th | ||
| W 2x | 1st (comp) | MLw 1x | 2nd* | ||
| & | 3rd | WNov 8+ | 1st (comp) | ||
| M 4x | 2nd | MVet 1x | scr | ||
| M 4+ | 4th | MNov 2x | 2nd* | ||
| MNov 1x | 2nd* (Paddy) | MVet 2x | scr | ||
| M 2- | 2nd | OJu12 1x | 5th | ||
| & | 4th | WJu16 2x | 2nd | ||
| W 8+ | 1st (comp) | W4+ | 1st (comp) | ||
| WJu16 1x | 2nd | M4- | 2nd | ||
| WInt 4x | 1st (comp) | WU23 4+ | scr ? | ||
| MVet 4+ (A-C) | 6th | MU23 1x | 1st | ||
| MU23 4+ | 2nd (comp) | MInt 1x | 1st | ||
| WInt 1x | 3rd | W4x | 2nd | ||
| WU23 1x | scr | & | 4th | ||
| M 8+ | 1st (comp) | ||||
It never stops... the coming weekend sees GRC crews racing at Henley Women's Regatta - and at Marlow - while the Rowing World Cup moves to its second stage in Munich.
'Snapper Ron' was at Met and took this lovely picture of GRC's most successful participant (sorry, boys).
More from the Snapper.
The pain has been great, but perhaps we can kiss it better by mentioning that Alan and Matt also won their event at Met last Saturday. At least they got their round of applause from the women last night (though... it wasn't as spontaneous as the one for Willie and Dreggy). Noticed that the SR website ignored them, too.
Better point out that Polly won two events... which means she's as good as four men.
The draw and associated info for Henley Women's is up:
GRC racing in Elite 4+ and Senior 1x. Also Polly's crew in Elite 4- ? (Corrections always welcome!).
Entries close soon for Marlow Regatta and Henley. See 'Next!', below.
The provisional draw has been published on the SR web site.
The GRC version is on Google Docs - with heats and finals highlighted.
Check the Twitter updates on the right - some great performances by GRC crews, including what sounds like a fine win by Willie and Dreggy.
Good luck to everyone racing at Met. this weekend.
A 'good news' story from the BBC.
Some pictures, from a dark and blustery Nottingham, of Olivia and Kate competing in Ju16 doubles and singles. Photos by dad Peter, who also took the farewell picture of the family car...
At Nat. Schools, Kate and Olivia qualified for the semi-final of their doubles event - but that was it for Saturday. Conditions were dull and wet.
Sunday was bright - and breezy! The Ju16 singles event was a little too hot to handle for our girls (who haven't been single sculling so much) and neither got past the first round. It was a good experience of top competition and we're stronger for it.
Turn the boats around and head back south - this time to Dorney for Metropolitan Regatta, which is on Saturday and Sunday, with several GRC crews and friends competing (see below). Look out for Polly and Sam in their squad composite crews.
The Scottish Championships are less than 2 weeks away - the folowing Saturday and Sunday. How time flies!
| June | 5 | Hexham Entries closed. |
| 5 - 6 | Metropolitan RESULTS PHOTOS RowTV | |
| 12 - 13 | Scottish Championships PROV draw. | |
| 13 | BR Masters Champs (ie Vets) | |
| 18 - 20 | Henley Women's Regatta UPDATED Draw, TT crews, TT info, News. | |
| 19 - 20 | Marlow | |
| 25 | HRR Qualifying | |
| 26 | Nithsdale (Dumfries) poster, information and events list. | |
| July | 30 - 4 | Henley Royal Regatta |
| 3 | Talkin Tarn | |
| 9 - 10 | Henley Vets | |
| 16 - 18 | British Championships Entries close on Monday 5 July at 3pm |
(From the SARA (d'oh!) web site, and from David Biddulph's calendar.)
Two huge events this weekend, one directly involving GRC, the other less directly connected.
Last weekend's Semple regatta was a long sunny day of racing - results were mixed - we'll call it a 'development regatta' (!).
The Res2/Res1 women had a win in WR2 quads (Jane, Jo, Katharina and Mo) and also boated 2 eights, in composites with SUBC and Semple, both of which looked very competitive in their first outngs (first race for Semple's Emma in the eight).
Kate and Olivia had a share of the Inter-regional victory in the mixed 8.
Other than that, pickings were a little slim, but good performances were produced - in particular by Helena, Fergus and Jules (in composite and GRC boats).
Secret millionaire Scott hands museums £1m
NB - there's a list of 'rowing' news items to be found every day under the appropriate link in the left-hand column.
Lots of sunny images from the second Clyde- based regatta of the season. Pictures from Malcolm, Peter and Clap.
And now, David Nolan's pictures are posted (slideshow of GRC images).
Lots of success for Glasgow Rowing Club on Saturday - and some near things too! In roughly chronological order:
Numerous GRC personnel also took part in the GUBC/EUBC and SUBC races in both graduate and under-graduate boats. Some won prizes.
(A temporary re-naming of the 'News' column, in recognition of the wave of red that swept our nation overnight.)
There are early starts for Jo, Don (8:46!), Raphael, Russell, Peter D, Paddy, Jules and Helena - see the highlighted draw.
Be there at least one hour before your first race!
BBC Radio Scotland has entered into the spirit of 'Pravda' - they've airbrushed us out of their 'Sport Weekly' challenge race which is to be contested tomorrow between two of Scotlands 'wee teams'.
There was some promotion for the sport on the Radio Scotland 'Sports Weekly' programme today*.
Clydesdale were advertising next week's regatta and issued on on-air challenge to St Andrew to a race in eights over 500m.
You might wonder, "Why didn't they ask us?" - after all, we share the same river - but the answer is probably contained elsewhere on this page, under 'results'.
A source remarked "Think of it as the rowing equivalent of the Alba Challenge Cup".
* Listen again, for 7 days from 1/5/10. Rowing item starts at about 44 mins.
More river-related 'news' on the radio, on Shereen Nanjiani's programme on Sunday.
There are already loads of photos for you to see, and lots more to come.
Picasa albums from Peter D (Sat. and Sun.), Clap (Sat) and Uncle Alan (a.k.a. Karen) are already online.
Here are Malcolm's photos:
Niall Darroch has put up a mountain of photos. There's some GRC gold buried within.
GRC Wins and places -
| Saturday | Sunday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MVet 2x D-F | 4th | W2- | 1st | ||
| MRes1 4+ | 1st (comp) | WJu18 4x | 3rd | ||
| & | 2nd (comp) | WRes2 2x | 5th | ||
| WJu18 1x | 6th (Olivia) | W1x | 2nd | ||
| & | 7th (Kate) | & | 4th | ||
| MRes2 4+ | 6th | W4x | 2nd | ||
| M1x | 2nd | WNov 1x | 1st | ||
| MNov 1x | 3rd (Paddy) | M8+ | 1st (comp) | ||
| & | 5th (Don) | & | 3rd | ||
| W8+ | 1st | MRes2 1x | 6th | ||
| M2- | 1st | WNov 8+ | 1st (comp) | ||
| & | 3rd | OJu13 2x | 5th | ||
| W4- | 1st | MVet 1x F | 2nd | ||
| WJu16 2x | 1st | M2x | 1st | ||
| WRes2 4x | 1st (comp) | ||||
| MRes2 2x | 1st | ||||
| W2x | 2nd | ||||
| M4+ | 1st | ||||
| & | 3rd (comp) | ||||
| & | 7th | ||||
Photos from Malcolm and his new (Peter's been dumped) snap- dragoon TK, on Malcolm's Picasa site.
David Nolan has got his usual excellent crop of photos on his Flickr site, including this slideshow of GRC crews.
The complaints are pouring in (well... one) that there is no news on the web site. So can someone create some news, please? The obvious candidates would be Iain, Sam and Polly, off to Hazewinkel this weekend.
And there's a regatta coming up.
Um....
Results are on-line.
Not much to report from a Scottish perspective - well done to GUBC as fastest Scottish crew, though.
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.
The Twit has been 'retired' from the main page, until the next big GRC expedition.
If you want to revise the recent bulletins from far afield, click here for more Twit.
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)
NB - there's a list of 'rowing' news items to be found every day under the appropriate link in the left-hand column.
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.
As we all know, a lot of the GRC news is sent by email to 'GRCMembers' on Google groups.
Remember - 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.
From the P&J - Pupils get rowing machines health boost
NB - there's a list of 'rowing' news items to be found every day under the appropriate link in the left-hand column.
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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