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LXIV Deneb Captain's Log
Author: Neil Pickford |
27th October 2019
Dear Cygnets,
I hope everyone had a nice weekend.
This week
Social :
Saturday 26^th of October: Henley Lunch in Leander Club, with the legendary Chairman's waddle down the river to the Flowerpot
Thursday Social: watch out Rupert's email.
Training: (as per plan)
Please update your availability in https://www.fitclub.me/ for all the sessions/races - (including weights and ergs, so we can plan which of them are going to be coached) and log on your erg results - cut off day for outings Tuesday!
Monday:
Weights. Focus on technique
Tuesday: 19:00 to try to start together (19.15)
Erg: 2x20' @ R22, 3' rest, approx. 2k+12s
Core and Stretching
Wednesday:
Weights:Focus on technique
Thursday: (LTR will be also there ,so please share the shed)
Erg:3 x 10' @ R20, approx. 5k+3s 5' rest
Core and Stretching
This Weekend Outings will follow
Have a nice Monday and a better rest of the week!
Cris
Dates for your Diary:
- 26^th October: Henley Lunch
- 23^rd November: HoR4s, 12.45. Please lend a hand if you can
- 24^th November: Vet 4s Head, 9.45 (Flood Tide). Please lend a hand if you can
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Stan Collingwood
Author: Neil Pickford |
16th October 2019
David 'Stan' Collingwood
1947-2019
Cancer has claimed all too many of our rowing friends and colleagues lately. Sad to relate, therefore, its latest victim, Stan Collingwood, who died on Saturday, 12th October, at the age of 72, in St Theresa's Hospice, Darlington.
Rowing is all about characters and one person who amply fitted the mould was Stan Collingwood. Many clubs can claim an association with Stan, but, at Cygnet, we like to think we got in on the ground floor, electing D.S.Collingwood as an active member in January 1973. Although his birth name was David, to the world of rowing he will always be remembered as 'Stan the Man'.
Stan's stay at Cygnet appears to have been brief and the club annals do not record him rowing in any competitive crews. Perhaps more surprisingly, he avoided any committee or organisational entanglements, although he would later return as an impressive finishing coach and organiser of the Business Houses Head in the late 1990s.
Stan would grace many Tideway clubs in his time, but no club could truly contain him, and he was always destined for greater things in the guise of umpiring, coaching, commentating and organising. Chairman of Thames Region was but one of the many posts he would hold in the rowing universe. One medium that was tailor-made for Stan was Regatta Radio at Henley Royal Regatta and he would spend many happy hours regaling listeners with 'tales of the riverbank' in between races before the drone took over.
Stan always brought experience, enthusiasm and bonhomie to all he did. In 1998 he accepted an assignment to coach an aspiring Cygnet entry for the Thames Cup at Henley, professing that it would be unrecognisable by the time his ten weeks were up. Walking over Barnes Bridge late one summer evening and watching a technically near perfect Vlll passing beneath, I can confirm that in this, as in all things, he was as good as his word.
Later in his working life, Stan was delighted to inform us that he had again become a Civil Servant and might even consider rejoining Cygnet. Although he never did, there was always a space at the Cygnet bar whenever he cared to stop by. He will be much missed.
Stan donated his body to science, so there will be no funeral. However, a Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving for the life of Dave ("Stan") Collingwood will be held at 10.30am, Saturday 16th November at Holy Trinity Church, Hounslow. Dress code: Colourful, as befits a celebration! RSVP to Linda Collingwood
Paul Rawkins, 16th October 2019

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LXIII Deneb Captain's Log
Author: Neil Pickford |
15th October 2019
Dear Cygnets,
I hope everyone had a nice weekend.
Good training sessions on the Tideway, rowing in the rain 😉, with a 4x and a 4+ and a 8+ on Saturday and a 4x and 2 singles on Sunday.
Also on Saturday the Learn to Row had the chance to go on the water for the first time. Well done everyone.
Next stop, 4's Head and Vets 4. Please update your availability in https://www.fitclub.me/ for all the sessions/races - (including weights and ergs, so we can plan which of them are going to be coached) and log on your erg results - cut off day for outings Tuesday!
This week training: (as per plan)
Monday:
Weights - Focus on technique
Tuesday: 19:00 to try to start at 19.15
Erg - 4k/3k/2k/1k continuous, R18/20/22/24
Core and Stretching
Wednesday
Weights - Focus on technique
Thursday: (LTR will be also there, so please share the shed)
Erg - 4 x 4' @ 24/26, 4' rest, 2km split
Core and Stretching
Thursday Social: watch out Rupert's email.
This Weekend Outings will follow
Have a nice Monday and a better rest of the week!
Cris
Dates for your Diary:
- 26^th October: Henley Lunch - bookings by 20th October please
- 23^rd November: HoR4s, 12.45
- 24^th November: Vet 4s Head, 9.45 (Flood Tide)
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