Author: simon.crunden

Good Afternoon Rowers,
Winter Update, is now at 14 days to go, still a while, I mean the Cuban Missile Crisis was only 14 days and enough happened in that time to bore us all silly in History classes for the next few decades. 14 days is also a moive!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898887/ Albeit not a very famous movie, it stars the infamous Patricia Wolf, who google images tells me could look like this   or maybe like this   or possible slightly older and look like this  so keep an eye out for her whichever one she might be in B grade movies in the future. It seems it’s a move about a boy band in their hey day and scores 3 stars out of 10, I’d tell you exactly how Patricia fits in to this plot but by the way my computer keeps aborting the action it may not be family viewing.
Needless to say, $14 is a pretty average bottle of wine (yes there are exceptions and this is coming from the person who has drunk more than their entire bodyweight in cask wine over the years) and 14 donuts is possible, 14 slices of pizza a maybe, just not 14 pizzas. So the number definitely getting more manageable, especially with the fine forecast for the next 3 days.
Ergo’s
OK, time to start nagging for the August ergo’s. The B team again pulled commendable erg scores, their average propped up by their stroke with piston like legs once more and are now experimenting with pasta / music / steroid combinations as they prepare to pull their next erg so hard that the machine winds up on the tan track tripping up Kew mothers, Labradors and hot triathletes.
Reports in state that people erging consistently are improving on water and in their 10 min monthly ergos. So if you’re not erging and are constantly getting over the loud speak “3 seat blah blah” or yelled from the cox “harder on (coincidently) your side” or possible from a slightly curious Joe “why is your oar not going at the same time as the other oars”. Then get going. The Boss is not so ivory tower not to recognize that JLs ergos are very very very challenging (but good for you). Last week said senior manager was spotted bailing after 8 out of 15 intervals, like an energizer bunny she was clearly powered by music; her excuse was her ipod ran out of power.
Regatta
Saltwater regatta, Saturday Sept 13th. It’s a 4.5 km twisty course in quads, let the boss know if you would like enter a crew by this Saturday August 22! So far we have 5 crews(2 mixed and 3 girls) crews expressing interest. But no guys without chaperones (soft)!
Time Trials
Shame we weren’t all ducks yesterday, or snails, frogs or tulip bulbs, just plain old rowers getting rained on. Not ideal, but saves you washing your hair this week. Well done on the time trials for two 8s and three 4s.  The DS are particularly hard core, because they went out first in the worst weather and in 4s (rather than 8s) and after a narrow brush with saturation managed to prepare a fantastic rowers breakfast which included fruit, yogurt and muesli.
Let’s Camp
CAMP please sign up by this Friday Aug 21! Follow this link http://3.25.77.84/bairnsdale-camp/
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)

Good Afternoon Rowers,
Winter Update, is now at 21 days to go. 21 Days is also a movie! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032179/ A Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier showdown where he killed her husband who she hadn’t seen for 3 years anyway, not much of a husband, can hardly imagine poor Viv having to open her own jars for 3 years. Also 21 days is apparently all it takes to change a habit, imagine! so it might be an opportunity to create the new you. Be a vegan? Recycle everything, ride a unicycle while drinking a coffee (anyone else seen that guy along the Yarra in the mornings?) cut down to 3 sugars in your coffee, row every day! Clean the boat in, out, and the oars, your cox and the racks EVERYtime you row! Think of all the fun you could have for the next 3 weeks. For me 21 reminds me of a sailor suit, fake tan, VERY blond hair and my parent’s cleaner getting along VERY well with my aunt, oh that was a good party.
Coxing the Boys
Arnie has put her hand up, but Arnie is already doing loads for the club, it would be nice for some other paddlers to sit up the front with the guys on a Thursday morning. We still need someone for Saturday afternoons as even by calling themselves the C team they have not yet reached our level of adulation in Joe’s eyes and are unlikely to be able to steal her for the long term. It’s your chance to help out and also to practice some coaching and coxing.
Time Trials
Time trial Round 1 of 4:  From in front of the club, around the island and back.  The DS will be heading off at 9:30 am to get a head start (KIDDING) no so they can cook tasty brunch for us. Everyone else meet at the club at 9:45 am and for a 10 am push off. Pease confirm your attendance with your squad bosses or coaches.  Target crews for on the water include men’s 8, a men’s 4, 3 DS 4s, and 2 women’s 8s.  You need to be there, TRUST ME it may be the only chance you have of a trophy this year, unless you work at McDonalds and provide excellent customer service, or have volunteered with the CFA for 25 years 09 could be a desert, so come along for your chance of a medal in our time trials.
 Let’s Camp
Simon Crunden (MNB) has posted the details here http://3.25.77.84/bairnsdale-camp/ here is a brief outline, for more details check out the link.
Date: Friday 25 September to Sunday 27 September 2009
It’s for 3 days, so start going to the toilet each hour from 9am on Thursday, eventually leave at about 2 mumbling about chicken from your freezer and the time the power went off. For those whose bosses don’t fall for it you can come and join us on Friday night but the cost for camp stays the same whether it’s 2 or 3 days and crews and training is a lot easier to manage if rowers attend all three days. Word about town is that it is Grand Final weekend, this shouldn’t affect you unless you play for Geelong or Hawthorn or Croydon or whoever on earth plays in the AFL, let’s face it, many of us row because we can’t catch.
September training camp heads back to Bairnsdale www.gippslandtourism.com.au/Bairnsdale/ Your chance to combine tourism with rowing! It is one of the best weekends on our calendar (along with our Guinness book of records attempts to fit the most number of people in a room at Corowa). It’s a great opportunity to eat a parma and work it off the next day!
This year we will be travelling to and from Bairnsdale by train Cinderella style in our own private carriage. The train will depart Flinders Street station on Thursday evening and arrive at Bairnsdale where you will have a short walk to the salubrious Mitchell Gardens Caravan Park.
There will be loads of rowing, some technical sessions and some looong sessions. Loads of fun, social, wine, pub and eating sessions. Can’t go wrong really.
 What’s the damage?
RRC Members: $215 inclusive, and what do you get for this outlay? You Cinderella style train journey, Accommodation (3 nights), All meals (breakfast, lunch and dinners), Trailer fees (petrol for the poor b*tard who has to tow that MASSIVE TRAILER and this does not include money to replace bins which we run over on street corners) Group team building session (pass the orange perhaps?), Coaching, Video analysis sessions (so take waterproof mascara and experiment with slowing the slide), Wine tasting (to be confirmed).
Optional Extra’s:
Bed linen (pre booked): $8.00 (could be an idea unless you plan on hopping in with someone else, or of course bringing your own) Guaranteed double bed (subject to availability): $15 (I’m leaving this one alone) you’ll need to pay for the Friday train if you can’t make Thursday with the rest of the gang, prices on the web.
RSVP
Not your specialty I know, but you need to confirm you are attending the camp by Friday 21^st August and pay by the 31^st of August.  
Click Here To Book and Register for Camp
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)

Hi Teamies,
Calling for some COXES
First of all, listen up if you like early mornings and bossing men about, maybe you missed out on the Army, you could have just been dumped and you’re seeking some vocal revenge on the entire male race, or perhaps you think you can whip those pretty boys into shape and help wring a medal out of them. The men’s squad is semi coxless, that is NOT  good, trust me one day when Joe abandoned us we were coxless and you should have heard the language of some of those young private school girls who we took by surprise as we rounded a corner, young people these days.
Now to save the boat fleet from being run over by cranky schoolgirls and also to stop the entire mens crew from waiting outside the women’s change rooms trying to SNAFFLE our prized cox. Will a few of you give them a hand on a few Thursday mornings and Saturday afternoons? Thursday mornings are fun with a row and a waffle and Saturday afternoons are a good so you can still have a looong sleep in.
So email me or Martin, do it for the club, the boats, the mean school girls with filthy mouths who scare easily and to stop the boys from hanging around the girls change room. Really we could do with some help here, a few offers will help get the mens crew on the water more regularly.
CELEBRATION – Sharon’s Betrothed
On another note, we’ve managed to offload Sharon, Graham has agreed to take her hand in marriage and we’re throwing a party to celebrate the weight lifted from our shoulders (I wonder if it was prompted by the time we rowed back and forth in front of the weather report; potentially advertising ourselves to the breakfast eating tv watching male public of Melbourne). We’ll be partying at the club house tomorrow night if you’d like to stop by, it’s BYO. Just let Sarah know you’re coming so she can throw a few more oysters in the boat. If you hear a strange whooshing noise it’s because we’re using the opportunity to do our erg.
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)