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Cygnet Weekly Update
29th November 2016
All,
A briefer update this week as I'm out of town for the week...
Firstly huge congratulations to Big Dave for winning his category in Scullers Head on his debut and a top 100 finish (96th). The full results for Cygnet and BBL were (before handicap)
96 Dave 23:31
226 Bart 24:32
328 Robin 25:16
363 Guy 25:30
371 Jez 25:32
412 Katy 26:02
432 Cris 26:24
And congrats to Coach Tim who won his Mas B category and was 11th overall in 22:22.
This week:- Tuesday 7:15pm Circuits with Maxi at Cavendish School
- Wednesday 7pm Squad run (work tbc)
- Thursday 7pm Squad erg (work tbc)
- Saturday Sunday outings returning to bigger boats - early o'clock timings tbc
Tim will publish the next months training plan in the next day and I'll up this with the details as and when
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR AVAILABILITY for this week as soon as possible to help plan the weekend outings. and
18th December - Plum Puddings race - please enter PP on the spreadsheet if you want to race in this fun event. We want to enter 2 eights and the give as many novices as possible a first taste of racing.
Cheers
Jez
Cygnet Weekly Update
22nd November 2016
It was an awesome weekend on the lumpy river with all our entrants for Scullers Head out training together accompanied by a fleet of small boats which gave good steering practice to Tom, Sam and Bjarne. First time in a pair for Scott. And Scott manned up to go out in a single for the race pace session with the other scullers in the second outing. It's been really excellent to get the scullers together as a pod, working off each other and getting Tim's feedback to improve our sculling. It certainly got the competitive juices flowing before the race. Bring it on.
So Scullers Head is this Saturday at 13:30, raced down river to Putney as usual. We have six entrants (seven if we can count Tim):
- 73 Bart (Mas B)
- 218 Tim (Mas B)
- 244 Guy (Mas C)
- 465 Jez (Mas E)
- 529 Robin (Mas Nov A)
- 532 BDF (Mas Nov B)
- 533 Cris (Mas Nov B)
Please come down and cheer and enjoy the spectacle. Matt is running the book on the Cygnet finish order...
Further ahead, Quintin Plum Puddings (a festive race like mini head race) is taking place on Sunday 18th December. This is a great opportunity for our novices to get their first race like experience without it being anything too serious. In previous years we've put together two mixed crews of experienced and novices rowers, which gives a bit of intra club spice so we plan to do the same this year. Can you sign up if you want to take part by putting "PP" on the availability sheet for the 18th Dec asap.
This Week:
Tuesday 7:15pm Circuits with Maxi at Cavendish School. We all loved the 200 lunges 200 burpees finisher last week, how can we top that this week?
Wednesday 7:00pm Club Run 5k easy
Thursday 7:00pm Squad Ergo 30 min rate 20 at 76% of 2k power (scullers head entrants only do 10 mins)
Saturday Main squad outing at club by 7:20 otw by 7:45
Novice outing at club by 9 otw by 9:15 - please update your availability asap only four of you have filled in the sheet to date.
Scullers Head racers decide for themselves their warm up routine,
Sunday Meet Main squad outing at club at 7:20am otw 7:45am
Finally another plea for people to check and fill in their availability at the latest by 8pm on Wednesday for the following weekend, it only takes a couple of minutes and it lets me plan the outings, crews, coxes, boats etc on Thursday morning.
Have a good week,
Jez
Cygnet Weekly Update
15th November 2016
The club was a hive of activity over the Fours Head/Vet Fours Head weekend with a hundred plus crews boating from the club and many people cheering them on from the boathouse. A big thanks for all those who helped with marshalling and boating to make sure the event went like clockwork. We have three crews in Vets Fours Head and here is how they did:
Mas B 4- (Bart, Gav, Ian M and Gareth) 18:46, 44th overall and 3rd in category
Mas B 4x (Vasil, Tom, Piers, Tom) 20:26, 139th overall and 11th in category
Mas Nov 4- (Anna, Nick, Cris, Jez, Cris) 20:40 146th overall and winner in category
So well done to all the crews, each can be proud of their achievements and it is good to report a win. And well done to coach Tim who won the whole event by some margin in his TSS Mas B 4x.
No time to catch breath with Scullers Head coming up on the 26th November with 6 Cygnets entered.
This week:
Tuesday 7:15 Circuits with Maxi at Cavendish School. What message will Tim send to follow last weeks 400 lunges finisher? Be there to find out???
Wednesday 7:00pm Club run 5k easy, 5k hard, non runners 6 x 5min squats at r 24, 1 min rest
Thursday 7:00pm Squad ergo 30 x 1 min at 2k pace, 1 min rest
Weekend:
The focus is on going out in small boats, preparing for Scullers Head and giving steering experience to those who haven't got their steering spurs yet.
Saturday: Meet at the club at 7:20, on the water at 7:45. Make sure you are punctual to give time for any boat adjustments to make sure we all boat together.
First outing technical session 8-10k
Second Session 4 x 1500m at r 24, 26, 28, 30
In between, Tim will give a presentation on nutrition
Novice outing at 10 am
Sunday: Meet at the club at 7:20, on the water at 7:45.
First session 12k UT2
Second session Fartlek (interval pyramid)
Crew plans will be published on Thursday morning so make sure your availability is updated by Wednesday evening at the latest.
Finally it's good to report a win, I'd love that to be the first of many, but it comes from putting in the work on fitness and technique, never has there been a better time to commit to Tim's programme to achieved that.
Have a great week,
Jez
