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Thursday 27th July 2023: PNPGC GRR Crew long row

Nearly 10km Long Row with most of GRR crew to Mousehole Harbour and back from Penzance Harbour. Cloudy evening but reasonable waves. Cox: Wendy, 6: Jem, 5:Julie 4: Trevor 3: Steve 2: Sarah 1: Me. Good speed to Mousehole and back. when we arrived in Mousehole harbour the crew had a little rest 😂 NiceContinue reading “Thursday 27th July 2023: PNPGC GRR Crew long row”

Tuesday 25th July 2023: Evening PNPGC mixed men Training row

Good mixed men over 5km training row session in a beautiful evening with sun and very calm waters making it great to home technique adjustments for length of stroke as well as practicing race starts and racing. Cox; Julie 6: Steve 5: Me 4: Trevor 3: Grant 2: Claire 1: Mikey/Kerry shots of crew andContinue reading “Tuesday 25th July 2023: Evening PNPGC mixed men Training row”

Tuesday 25th July 2023: Quick Repetition Row on RowErg practicing technique on the machine learnt from Dark Horse YouTube

This was a interval session after doing 5 more similar practice sessions to try to bring the times down by changing technique learnt from Dark Horse beginners technique YouTube sessions. Knocking quite a few seconds off my previous times which hopefully will come down as I get fitter and home the RowErg technique better whichContinue reading “Tuesday 25th July 2023: Quick Repetition Row on RowErg practicing technique on the machine learnt from Dark Horse YouTube”

Sunday 23th July; PNPGC GRR race crew endurance training

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”

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.

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”