A long Endurance Great River Race (GRR) crew training row of over 21 km / 13 miles from Penzance Harbour to Praa sands circling the Mount and back. Very choppy seas and cloudy ☁️. Cox: Wendy, 6: Jem, 5: Julie, 4: Steve, 3: Trevor. 2: Alison, 1: me. Quite a challenging row due to highContinue reading “Sunday 23th July; PNPGC GRR race crew endurance training”
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Thursday 20th July 2023: PNPGC Men’s Training
Nice evening with full men’s training row in a lovely sunny 😎 evening with calm seas. Good training on race starts and buoy turning. Cox: Julie/Wendy, 6: Steve, 5: Me, 4: Mikey, 3: Grant, 2: Jonny/Kevin, 1: Trevor. Crew in front and behind me
Wednesday 19th July 2023: Did a Technical training session on Concept2 RowErg with Dark Horse
Did a training session working out the correct technique on the Concept2 RowErg. Nice relaxed 😎 training session on YouTube which I need to put into practice on future training rows. Summary of sessions below. Everything was done at a slow pace, but still covered 2.5km.
Wednesday 19th July 2023: Pilates stretching session
Nice Pilates session to improve flexibility. Quite challenging after last night’s 11km gig row but needed as hips very stiff 😥
Tuesday 18th July 2023: PNPGC – The Great River race long row training session
PNPGC Long Row training for the Great River race. Cox:Wendy, 6: Jem, 5: Julie, 4: Steve, 3: Me, 2: Alison 1: Trevor with Sarah who later replaced Alison half way. Very choppy seas and cloudy making the row challenging 😥 which was good for training . Lot’s of sing shanties to keep people amused suchContinue reading “Tuesday 18th July 2023: PNPGC – The Great River race long row training session”
Monday 17th July 2023: Quick RowErg Row on Concept2
Sunday 16th July 2023: Training Gig Row to Newlyn Harbour and back
Training row to Newlyn Harbour and back. Morladron and Fort- itude taken out on choppy waters. Cox m: Wendy 6: Jem, 5:Julie, 4: Steve, 3: Sarah 2: Me and 1: Janice Some photos in Newlyn harbour
Saturday 15th July 2023: Quick recovery zwift virtual ride on WattBike on zwift France route
Quick Zwift recovery ride on WattBike after yesterday’s long RowErg row. Using different muscles. Followed this with some strength training with weights
Friday 14th July 2023: Training Row on RowErg
Training endurance 10km row on Ergo for the River race. This was followed by a short strength training session with weights
Thursday 13th July 2023: PNPGC Evening crew row
Nice evening row in choppy seas. Good practice on buoy turns and race starts as well as technical race rowing 🚣♀️ . Cox: Emma, 6: Steve 5:Julie 4: Jem 3: Trevor, 2: Me 1: Kevin with Janice observing.
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