Tomorrow we race, it's good to race and I hope that all squad members racing are looking forward to putting their best effort in on the water. Tomorrow we race at Skibbereen Head, at our training venue, the National Training Centre. It's a well organised Head Race run by a well run club.
However...
4686.7km from the startline of Skib Head on Saturday is the startline of the Head of the Charles, a race I was lucky enough to attend with a Molesey VIII three years ago. It snowed, actually it was more like dinner plates of sleet falling in an opaque sheet on the waiting crews down in the basin. Regardless of the weather conditions the Head of the Charles is one of the biggest if not THE biggest rowing race on the planet. Every year 9000 rowers make their way to Boston to take part in the two days of racing on the Charles River. This year there are numerous Olympic Champions taking part alongside 'masters', club rowers and juniors. (http://hocr.org/about-hocr/).
Yes, Skib' Head is a good head race on local water but my God wouldn't it be nice to take a good Irish college crew across the Atlantic? Get the Skull and Bones charging down the Charles?
Train hard squads...
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