PNPGC rowers Me, Trev, James and Jim made up the teams with fill in members from Rowhedge and Poole. We came second out of four in both races. As last year this took place at Silver wings sailing club on waversley lake near Staines
Thursday 23rd January 2025: 35 minute RowAlong fitness session at Zone 2
35 minute RowAlong fitness row at Zone 2 at 20 strokes a minute. Also 4 minute warm up and 2 minute cool 😎 down. Followed this with a short 10 min strength session 5×3 dumbbell bicep curl 10 kg. 10 x Barbell bench press 20kg and 10 dumbell triceps pulls at 6kg.
Wednesday 22nd January 2025: Fitness Training C2 RowErg row with RowAlong with John Stevenson
Steady fitness training 5 day program challenge row with RowAlong with John Steventon. Nice steady row with 4 minute warm up followed by two 15min sessions at a slow steady pace and 2 minute cool 😎 down with some stretches to finish. Lots of technique instruction as well.
Saturday 18th January 2025: PNPGC Men’s crew row
Short row in choppy seas and low tide. Cox: James, 6: Jim, 5; Trev, 4: Tom, 4: Steve, 2: Me, 1: Chris.
Friday 17th January 2025: WattBike ride on Fulgaz French 🇫🇷 route with quick strength session
Good WattBike ride on the French Fulgaz route. Good video. Followed this with quick strength session. This included dumbbell bicep curl and side bend. Barbell bench press and dumbbell tricep extension. Finished with plank.
Wednesday 15 January 2025: PNPGC Night mixed row
Lovely evening gig row out of Penzance and around Harbour. The evening weather was great with clear skies and calm seas. Crew was Coxes: James/ Trevor 6:Jo, 5: Jem, 4: Steve, 3: Chris, 2: Me, 1: Kevin. Lots of race starts as well as pyramid sessions of 10 easy stroke row followed by 10 hard stroke row and moving upwards to 60. So a tough session to improve fitness and power of the stroke.
Sunday 12th January 2025: WattBike ride on the Fulgaz River Amstel River route in Holland
Nice 20km ride along the Fulgaz Holland route following the Amstel River going through villages South of Amsterdam especially Uithoorn
Saturday 11th January 2025: PNPGC mixed crew gig row
Nice rowing 🚣 in the Penzance Harbour and slightly outside but too choppy. Lots of practice on racing starts. Weather pretty awful and dank. PNPGC Crew Cox : James, 6: Jo, 5: Janice, 4: Steve, 3 Michelle, 2 Me, 1: Emma. Route shown below
Thursday 9th January 2025: WattBike ride on the Fulgaz Switzerland🇨🇠course
Nice fast powerful ride as time constrained. Nice scenery in Switzerland 🇨ðŸ‡
Wednesday 8th January 2025: Two C2 RowErg’s with a Strength session between them
Warm up row followed by strength and flexibility session as follows:
In addition some stretching & flexibility exercises. Followed this with a cool 😎 down row as follows:
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