Some things remain predictable….when Simon organises a club activity the weather is guaranteed to be appalling (and it was), the mixed master’s quad will continue to fiddle with their boat leading up to the world masters (and they did), Bairnsdale rowing camp will produce more blisters than any other weekend (and it did, just ask Sally Allen), our ability to tune into the Grand Final will continue to remain as one of the biggest challenges for the club (the picture was great but the radio coverage was 7 seconds ahead of the ‘live’ TV coverage) and Emma Catford will win the box biting competition (just ask Franzi).
Plenty of highlights on the weekend including the carrot cake, the boys BBQ, Dennis’s birthday cake (complete with 36 candles of which only two remained alight in the walk from the cabin to the food tent, a distance of only 10 metres), the DS crew made it to the cliffs, Jim’s introduction of the committee and coaches, a few cold water swims, a visit to the local Tabaret in search of a Thursday night beer and of course the rowing (of which there was plenty).
Highlights package to be posted soon with plenty of photo’s like the one below so keep a look out for it….Simon
Gray Matters working up some Dutch courage in a new boat
Afternoon Rowers, Sorry for the late email.
My watch isn’t waterproof and I spent the day doing laps in a wading pool outside Mike’s house then without a successful sighting of Mike I took the pool on the tram to Justin’s place and tried outside his til dark.
So this afternoon I’m off to Clarke rubber to see if I can swap my wading pool for some floaties. So far my only offer to watch me swim is Simon (man not boat) who cannot access me but could do with a laugh.
Grand Final Tipping
Click on the following link to enter the RRC Men’s Grand Final Tipping Comp. $2 entry with the winner take all. Closets to the mark scoops the ‘pool’.
http://wp.me/pzFWD-3v
Camp this Weekend
Camp people and others attending camp need to read Simon’s info pack and make sure that they don’t miss the train. Boat loading is this Wed night. Train on Thursday night.
Time Trials
Well done to the rowers and the kitchen crew it was impressive on all fronts. The men’s eight time was hotter than a buccaneers pistol, as is the bloke in the stroke seat….Woof!
Learn to Row
This starts 4th October 11:45am and runs for four weeks on consecutive Sundays.
Please get in touch with Justin if;
1. You would like to coach LTR. It’s challenging but a lot of fun. I believe $25 is paid for your race fee account for each session coached.
2. You have friends who would like to try rowing.
3. You have friends who have e-mailed the club about LTR but have not yet received a response.
4. You just feel like a chat.
5. You are keen to know how he is faring in WA shooting camels.
If you are interested I recommend emailing or calling Justin over swimming in a paddle pool outside his place seems to have had little success. [email protected] 0425 813929
Educational Viewing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKigH-j4vHQ&feature=related
The above is a link to a movie Nicole made of me earlier in my winter full body Zootie (which she made for me in foil, something she was thinking of rolling out for the rest of the club, latter parts of this video which we didn’t upload to u-tube show me magnetised to the erg so we didn’t proceed with this particular prototype). Anyway this may help some of you tick tock rowers (who may well have been metronomes in past lives and for those less musical no I am not referring to inner city garden ornaments)
Possible New Arrival
Yes that’s right! It’s a buddy for Simon Crunden (boat not man) and John Latham (boat not man). The B team crash test dummies tried out a new tub four last week, and came within a bee’s d*ck of annihilating the mens 8. Something previously not possible in the John Latham (boat not man) unless it was hooked up to a 747 jet engine. It’s up to all of us ‘cool’ tub rowers to lean on Martin to snap the ‘Orlando’ up for us. Then we’ll just flog another hundred or more boxes of freddos to help us put some racing stripes on him.
Katie Gray PANS (PA to Nicole Studka, previously PA to JK until she was transferred to the Darwin Oar Rowing Society and now champions the DORC’s up there)…with a bit of editing by Simon C
Grand Final Tips
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My tip is Cats by 20 points.
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Time Trial Update and Training Wednesday this week.
Dashing display by the men’s eight on the weekend to improve their previous round the island time trial time by over 2 minutes. The official times are yet to be confirmed, but cox Derek Begg said the time was just over 32 minutes which is a vast improvement on the previous time of 34 min 16 sec.
Stoke Jim ‘it hurt like hell’ Cooper said that the crew had a reasonable row and a couple of the crew members commented that the row was a lot more controlled that the previous time trial.
Sam Morrison also completed the time trail in the single scull but was not available to comment on his row, not that we actively chased him for a comment after the All Black beat the Wallabies into submission on Saturday night in the rugby.
With the camp taking away Thursday this week, it was decided on Saturday that we would row on Wednesday AM instead so set your alarm clocks to be down at the sheds for Wednesday at 6:15 for a couple of laps before we have to de-rigg the boat for camp.
Sunday Time Trial
We have a time trial scheduled for this Sunday (at 1000hrs) and would like to see the following combinations doing the trip around the island:
Men’s Eight
Stroke: Jim Cooper
7: Matt Lane
6: Alex Playsted
5: Johno
4: Barry Campbell
3: Justin Thomas
2: Kevin Burrows
Bow: David Micallef
Cox: TBA
Men’s Single
Sam Morrison
Lunch is being put on by the women’s eight and they have promised lashings of bacon, eggs and other assorted artery hardening foods. I will not be down on the Sunday as it is Henry’s (son) 3rd birthday and we have a mass of kids and parents coming over to tear the house down over brunch so I should be home to try and restrict the damage that is bound to occur.
I am in the process of confirming another cox as Elaine is on family duties as her father is in town. See you all Saturday.
Simon
This week @ RRC
Following a pleasant friday night enjoying the products of the Goat, a saturday morning fighting off its ills, a saturday afternoon wishing that I had a boat with a rudder, and sunday drowning my shame in losing to Jim & Simon by eating a huge chunk of cow… I bring you the week of 14 September!
Sound off if you’re up for some:
- ergo or run action 1815 at the shed tonight. remember that your 20min with rating cap 22 is due. get total distance, avg split, avg rate, and per-2-minute splits.
- thursday morning row
- saturday afternoon row
Weights:
Due to renovations at the punt road oval, RFC evening weights will finish on Monday 5 October in order to merge all the groups that use that building into half the space. They will resume some time in August when all the work is done.
John plans to run morning sessions instead:
weights: Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri mornings at 06:30
boxercise: Wed at 06:30
Thinking the weights inclined people could focus on two sessions, say Tue & Fri or Mon & Fri. I swear I’ll make it to mornings once WMG is over with.
Martin Foster
Gray Matters a florists best friend
Afternoon Rowers,
Wow the invites I’ve had for dinner dates since I sent out my photo last week have to be seen to be believed, I’m sneezing as I write this as I’ve just answered the door to yet another bunch of roses. I only hope I’m fortunate enough for the pic to find its way onto face book and into the hands of devastated ex’s and successful high school peers.
Word is out that best dressed at the MJ party went to JL, who dressed as a Zombie. I have to be clear here that I mean MAN NOT BOAT, as the JL boat is also white, slow, has about as many winning medals as your average Zombie and generally lives life at a ghoulish /sluggish pace, best way to tell which is which (Zombie or boat) is to of course weigh them.
Essendon Saltwater Regatta
We’re extremely concerned that Joe has now tasted success (other than in a row over…) and we’ll be forced to use our legs past the first 100 metres of our next race. Until now, winning was something the crews in the distance did. Joe won with the boys and the girls crew. Proving that we can no longer blame her……….. Hmm, back to blaming the boat then.
Such success means we can have a couple of cheap stabs at the WMG mixed quad and current Australian Champions (that is World Masters Games, not WWF which is obviously wrestling or saving whales, neither of which we are involved in at this present stage) learnt why you should have steering on a boat during the saltwater challenge after rowing every where except Highpoint to check out the sales; Simon Crunden (man not boat) managed to go past Poyntons for the first time ever without having to spend $200 on plants for the garden, however the Australian Champions couldn’t resist and tried hard to check out all the plants down the course as well as at Poyntons sale.
THE BIG THING ON THIS WEEKEND IS THE AROUND THE ISLAND TIME TRIAL.
All rowers need to be at club at 9:45 am for 10 am on water. Hopefully, we can boat 3 8s and 3 4s like last time.
Derek’s HoTY 8 is catering. So some HOT and YUM food coming our way.
We will need someone to do the timing (otherwise it’s a row around the island, not a time trial) and someone to marshal the boats. Apparently JL as well as having a boat and a Zombie outfit, has a stopwatch so we may have a volunteer (term loosely used) here.
We’ll be a few short as some of us rowing WMG will be at Carrum! Ah the prestige…Ok so it doesn’t have the allure of the Nile, and doesn’t exactly scream World, but I guess we’ve got to start somewhere.
THE OTHER BIG THING COMING UP – IS CAMP! As part of camp festivities we will be running a members “all about you” trivia. Simon will send out a link on Survey Monkey were members can include a couple of interesting facts about themselves from which we can make up questions. (You don’t have to be at camp – to put facts in.)
e.g. How does Nicole Start the day on a Monday morning A) a cup of tea and a box of freddos, B) A keg of Mountain Goat Ale and a box of Freddos, C) she brings a healthy nutritious breakfast, D) She forgets her breakfast and her wallet and has a tin of MLC’s milo followed by a bottle of tomato sauce.
WARNING
If Mike, EMMA and JUSTIN haven’t seen you swim and you haven’t done your multi choice test you will look like a git in the water in October. Join Sandra and I in our floaties…… We’ll be doing our best to make them cool. I think I might try putting a ribbon in my hair, schoolgirl style, yellow of course, it’s important to match. Then I may look like a toddler taken out by their parents for a paddle…. I hope I don’t get chaffing under my arms, I must remember some vaseline.
katie gray
PANS (PA to Nicole Studka, previously PA to JK until she was transferred to the Darwin Oar Rowing Society and now champions the DORC’s up there)
Coxless v Coxed on the weekend at the Saltwater regatta
This from Martin…about the only place they didn’t investigate was the Anglers!
![rage-no-steer[2]](http://test.richmondrowing.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/rage-no-steer22.jpg "rage-no-steer[2]")
Saltwater, wind, heat and a good start to the season for Richmond
The men’s squad struck form in the first regatta of the season easily winning the Men’s C Grade Quad Scull at the Essendon Saltwater regatta last Saturday.
In appalling windy and unseasonably hot conditions, the crew of Tim Foster, Sam Morrison, Troy Durham, Matthew Lane and cox Jo Lian-Lloyd kept their cool to record one of the best times on the day.
Not to be out done by the men, the women’s C Grade Quad Scull of Laura Schouten, Annalise Gehling, Geraldine Goss, Edith Hamilton and Jo Lian-Lloyd picked up a win in a very competitive field to also kick start their season in fine style.
In a surprise result, the glamour mixed quad of Franzi Locher, Simon Crunden, Jim Cooper, Leonie Cluse and cox Derek Begg finished third in the mixed masters category only eight seconds behind the winning Cardinals crew (who they passed during the race???).
Jim Cooper summed up the day in a nutshell for the glamour quad saying that they may have only been eight seconds behind but at no stage during the race could they have made up the time as the crossed the line with the tank running on fumes.
“While we went down by only a slight margin the real bonus for the glamour quad was flogging the Richmond dual Australian champion mixed quad and boy am I getting some mileage out of that” he said.
“Over the last month we have had several very ordinary mornings on the Yarra with everything climate change can throw at us including wind, rain, barges, even dolphins and the dual Aussie champs have been missing in action, presumably tucked up home under the doona hiding from the conditions and as a result, we managed to conquer the conditions while they (the Aussie champs) found it all a bit too tough” he said.
New ergo's
I have updated the ergo page on the blog with a number of new ergo’s that are sure to have you using my name in vain.
Reminder that we have a 20 minute ergo due this month, I have posted the details on top of the ergo pile so you can’t miss it. Click on the link to get the details:
http://wp.me/PzFWD-1c
I will get to the training program for Saturday tonight and have a chat to you about it tomorrow AM as I will be out of action on Saturday due to the Saltwater Challenge.