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Women’s Sweep-oar Squad 2010 

Summer season:

Light nights, warm mornings and the ever so attractive rowing induced sun-tans are officially upon us. Shrewsbury Regatta, 15^th/16^th May officially marks the start of Pengwern BC summer calendar and the women’s squad will be competing almost every two weeks right through till mid-August.

Here are the events the women’s squad are aiming to attend:

• ShrewsburyRegatta 15^th & 16^th May
• Northwich Regatta 30^th May
• Bridgnorth Regatta 12^th June
• Ironbridge Regatta 26^th & 27^th June
• Bewdley Regatta 24^th & 25^th July
• Stourport Regatta 14^th & 15^th August

Training:

For the summer months the squad has been split down into fours. We currently have four active W4+ crews, three of which will be aiming to compete within the region. The training schedules for competitive crews are boat and coxswain dependant but will all be variations on this basic layout:

• Tuesday nights 6.30pm
• Thursday night 6.30pm
• Saturday mornings 7.30am
• Sunday mornings 9.00am

Crew members are encouraged to do ergo’s in their own time to maintain fitness. Non-competitive crews have the following training schedule:

• Tuesday nights 6.30pm
• Sunday mornings 9.00am

Interested in rowing?

Get in contact with the club via the contacts page on the website. We have an expanding women’s squad and are always looking for new members regardless of rowing ability or fitness! We hope to strengthen our squad in time for the head season starting October 2010.

Interested in coxing?

We are in desperate of coxes, if you are interested in learning to cox or would like more information about what is included in the role of a coxswain then please get in touch with me! We would LOVE to hear from you.

See the online gallery and race reports throughout the season for updates on the progress of the women’s squad.

Cheers,

Doone.

Email: doonewatts@googlemail.com

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Winter Training

Whilst in the grasps of the winter months access to the river and at times the clubhouse has been difficult to say the least! We’ve had floods and ice flows and as a result of that we’ve lost at least 5 weekends worth of outings.

The plan for spring 2010 is to get as many sweep-oar women rowing at weekends as possible. We are currently aiming to get an eight and a four out on Saturday mornings at 7:30am along with two eights and a possible four on Sunday mornings at 9:00am. There is a mid-week ergo and weights session on Tuesday nights from 6:00-8:00pm where the whole squad will be preparing fitness and strength levels for the head season. Squad members are also encouraged to attend weekly club circuits on Thursday nights at 7:30pm as this will compliment the work done in the boat at weekends. The amount of training may increase as the nights get lighter and the big heads approach.

There are numerous head races taking place during February and March that the squad is aiming to take part in:

20^th Feb – Runcorn/Worcester Head.

28^th Feb – Trent Head.

13^th Mar – WeHORR (Women’s Head of the River Race, Thames, London).

20^th Mar – North of England Head (Chester).

 The aim for the summer is to build on the established squad that trained throughout the head season. We are hoping to have numerous women’s sweep-oar crews attending local regattas which will be greatly helped with the completion of the new boat bay due April 2010. When the building work is complete the club will have a full compliment of boats and this means our other women’s eight – joy!

We are always looking for new members, so if you want to row and fancy getting involved take a look at the beginner’s course run by Dave Ewels. Once you’ve been taught the basics you will be passed on to the women’s squad where we will get you sorted into a crew. If you have rowed before and want to row at Pengwern get in touch with the club!

I’ll try to update this as often as possible, best wishes,

Doone.

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