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Farewell to the Mountains
Author: Matt Byrne |
28th August 2017
News in brief:
A weekend of long miles, flat water and glorious sunshine by the river, and some coxing experience gains for Vasil, Tom, and Mustafa.
Time to hit the winter season running and push those base fitness levels up.

The weekend also saw a good-bye party for erstwhile Bar Steward, Killepitsch fiend, Jagerbomb pusher and occasional Cygnet rowing sub Katie Mountain (Cygnet racing record: P1, W1) and Cygnet club member Ian Mountain (race record: P lots, W3) as they head north to Cumbria. Best wishes for the future, and we look forward to arranging future training camps in the Lake District.

Social events
Friday evening - Cygnet end of season dinner. See Cris's email for details.
Saturday afternoon - Club Day - please sign up here so the social secretaries have a good idea of numbers: https://beta.doodle.com/poll/9tndmih429ncwkng
Fun sprint racing in mixed crews with BBLRC, BBQ and Beers in the sunshine

Further ahead at the end of October is the annual Henley Lunch. See http://www.cygnet-rc.org.uk/event-henley_lunch.html for details and get signed up.

Housekeeping
No more organised weeknight outings as the nights are drawing in. Any evening scullers should take lights. We're also looking to give the seniors and development squads experience of coxing and steering, so don't be surprised to find yourself in an unfamiliar seat on the outing plans. (Don't worry too much - we won't let you out unsupervised)
We're also going to re-organise the email distribution lists this week, so you may get a few emails from the google people.

Availability
Weekends up to Christmas are now loaded into fitclub.me, so get clicking. http://www.fitclub.me/club/dashboard?clubId=15

This coming weekend availabilities by Tuesday night please.

This week :
Tuesday
Seniors - core & weights
Novices - erg 10 x 500m at 2k pace, paired up.

Wednesday
Club run 5km 7.30pm
CSBH to Latymer BH and back. First run of the season, so I'm expecting it to be in the region of 30-40 mins for me. Standard lamppost rules apply

Thursday
Seniors - erg 8km relays, teams of 4, 4 x 500m each.
Novices - erg 30' UT2 technical (or subbing into senior relay teams)

Friday
End of season dinner

Saturday
Whole Squad - Outings 7am, 10 am,
Club Day racing/beer/bbq, from 12.30pm

Sunday
Whole Squad - Outings 7am, 10am

Further Ahead:
Sculling Camp 9/10 September
Rheinmarathonrudern 7 October
Pairs Head 14 October
Cygnet Henley Lunch 28 October
Veterans Fours Head 11 November
Fours Head 12 November
Scullers Head 2 December
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Winter is coming
Author: Matt Byrne |
21st August 2017
Bit of a wait between updates, so hoping you haven't been bereft of club news for too long.

Racing:
A win for the self-styled "meatwagon" at Peterborough Summer in Tier 2 4+ (somewhere around IM2/IM3 in recent coinage) wonderfully captured on film by 2nd placed Sheffield here: https://www.facebook.com/promuffy/videos/888920072730/
A good first win under the auspices of the new captaincy team, and we hope that the crew will be able to keep the winning mentality into the winter season with Pairs and Fours Heads coming up.

Unfortunately no pewterware to report from Oxford Regatta, but a good weekend of racing, drinking and camping was had by our most recent LTR graduates (and a couple of extras)
Please send any racing photos to the captain or webmaster for inclusion on the website.

Housekeeping:
Nights are now drawing in, so please strongly consider lights for evening outings, especially in cloudy weather. Summer racing is now over, so we're looking to get crews lined up and training for the small boats heads between now and Christmas, as well as developing the LTR graduates through the novice squad; a new poll for race interest will be released shortly.

We're also looking to give the seniors and development squads experience of coxing and steering, so don't be surprised to find yourself in an unfamiliar seat on the outing plans. (Don't worry too much - we won't let you out unsupervised) We're also going to re-organise the email distribution lists next week, so you may get a few emails from the google people.
Availability:
We're still trialling this new web-based availability system for August and September, so please have a look at http://www.fitclub.me/club/dashboard?clubId=15 to create an account and request to join Cygnet RC. All the training sessions (up to 3 Sept) are loaded into the Cygnet calendar and it looks like a simpler system to update and change on phones than googledocs
(and outputs a lovely spreadsheet for us admins to use in coordinating outings.)

This week:
Tuesday
Seniors - core & weights
Novices - erg 30' rate 20 UT1.
(keep the rate together as a group. working hard enough not to be able to chat easily.)
Wednesday
Seniors - outings, if we actually have anyone available. Only 3 on the sheet at the moment.
Thursday
Seniors - erg 30' r20 AT
Novices - outing 7pm, coached by Alan.
Currently, availability gives us a 4+ of Kay, Eric, Ashley, Julian, coxed by Vasil. :)
Saturday
Seniors - Outings 7am, 10.30 am, +rigging/setup session
Novices - Outing 9 am
Sunday
Seniors - Outings 7am, 10am, +rigging/setup session
Novices - Outing 10am

Further Ahead:
Cygnet End Of Season Dinner 1 September
Club Day BBQ and Mixed Racing 2 September
Sculling Camp 9/10 September
Rheinmarathonrudern 7 October
Pairs Head 14 October
Cygnet Henley Lunch 28 October
Veterans Fours Head 11 November
Fours Head 12 November
Scullers Head 2 December

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Captain's Blog
Author: Matt Byrne |
30th July 2017
Racing Post:
No wins at Henley Town, but a good day out was had by all, despite the rain.
Also a belated well done to Ian S on his 1:27.26 in the Sprint distance at the London Triathlon last weekend, 425th/2283
Safety Note
Unfortunately, the "number of days since a Cygnet boat hit a bridge" counter had to be reset to zero yesterday, we'd nearly got to 3570. The Alan Cox is therefore out of action for the forseeable until he's been to the menders.
In unrelated news, the "number of days since Stu steered into a bridge" counter has also been set back to zero from somewhere around 3570 ... welcome back to the Tideway, Stu. The captaincy plans to ask the PLA to paint Barnes Bridge in a fluorescent shade of yellow to make it easier to spot.
Housekeeping
Please get the availability up to Oxford on 20th August into the system by close of play on Monday .This in case Tim is available to coach during the week. (Needless to say, we'll need Tues/Weds/Thurs availability for everyone to make outings work ...)
Race Plans
So far for Peterborough Regatta 12/13 Aug I have: Robin, Ian, Scott, Sam. Anyone else in the senior squad want to race this? Last call for entries.
So far for Oxford Regatta 19/20 Aug from the spreadsheet I have: Jon, Ashley, Mark, Jim, Kay, Eric, Tom, Mustafa, Niall, Cris, Jez, Vasil, Charlie, Me. Please can you all confirm that you definitely want to race, and anyone not listed above who wants to race should let me know and update the spreadsheet. Anyone who can't (or won't) do both days to race please also let me know. Entries have to go in this week. If you haven't already, you'll need to join British Rowing and get gold membership in order to race.
Fitclub.me
We're also trialling a new web-based availability system for August, so please have a look at http://www.fitclub.me/club/dashboard?clubId=15 to create an account and request to join Cygnet RC. All the training sessions are loaded into the Cygnet calendar and it looks like a simpler system to update and change on phones than googledocs.
This week :
Tuesday
Seniors - weights
Novices - ergs 10 x 500m teams of 2 + 30' rest
Wednesday
Seniors - outings UT2 + starts and wind-ins
Thursday
Seniors - ergs 10 x 500m teams Novices - outing 7pm, coached by Alan.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a film crew at Emanuel Boathouse on Thursday; their car park will be off limits for the day.
Saturday
Seniors - Outings 7am, 10am
Novices - Outing10 am
Sunday
Seniors - Outings 7am, 10am
Novices - Outing 10am

Further Ahead:
Peterborough Regatta 12/13 August
Oxford City Regatta 19/20 August
Cygnet End Of Season Dinner 1 September
Club Day BBQ and Mixed Racing 2 September
Sculling Camp 9/10 September
Rheinmarathonrudern 7 October
Pairs Head 14 October
Cygnet Henley Lunch 28 October
Veterans Fours Head 11 November
Fours Head 12 November
Scullers Head 2 December
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