Concept2 News
Eirian has finished her challenge of walking across the Arctic!
She dropped us a quick email this week to let us know of her return.
"I finished the trek safe and sound last week, with just a burnt face and tendon damage in my wrist (which annoyingly means I can't row for a couple of weeks!). The rowing beforehand really did help though so thank you so much for all the help with technique and th… Read full post
Well...April started very well with a really good recorded time for us at the Boston Rowing Marathon and we have set a new course record as we did it in a coastal 2- and as the message we got from Andrew Triggs Hodge says "I think you have truly done something that won't be attempted soon! Massive respect!" quite happy with that.
But the biggest thing is the fitness and stamina that I have been a… Read full post
Firefighters have praised a group of students from NEW College for their hard work in promoting the Fire Service's FireFit Challenge during an open day at the Redditch campus on Saturday (21 April).
The FireFit Challenge is a national initiative aimed at encouraging both Fire Service staff and those in the wider community to get more active ahead of this year's Olympic Games. Locally, Hereford &a… Read full post
The rowing challenge held at Sixways before the Worcester Warriors v Exeter Chiefs match on Saturday (14 April) has helped boost the total mileage in Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Services (HWFRS) FireFit Challenge.
The FireFit Challenge is a national initiative aimed at encouraging both Fire Service staff and those in the wider community to get active and improve their health and fi… Read full post
This week on THE SQUAD we take a look at Northwich Rowing Club (est. 1875) and the GB Rowing Centre at Caversham (est. 2006): two contrasting faces of British rowing, but both vital - in their different ways - to the health of rowing in this country. The link to both is Matt Langridge, 2011 M4- World Champion and 2008 M8+ Olympic silver medallist. Matt took his camera along to the club where he le… Read full post
On Friday 23rd March 1,750 young people (aged 11 to 18) gathered from all over the country at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in North London to take part in the sixth annual National Junior Indoor Rowing Championship - organised by the charity London Youth Rowing (LYR).
With 80 rowing machines in action simultaneously as teams competed fiercely for medals, and with four giant screens tracking th… Read full post
Paul contacted us last week to let me know that he was attempting the 100k Indoor Rowing record...
So, a local coastal rowing club (Rushbrooke) with close ties to the one I recently joined (Whitegate) are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage and subsequent tragic sinking on the Titanic - with an 82 hour row on concept2 indoor rowing machines in the centre of Cobh (the last por… Read full post
Hi, first an introduction - my name is Paul although I also go under a few aliases' two of which I will share here "Butch91" is my sign on to the C2 UK forum and "Beowulf" is a kind of adopted motivation name which I use to gear myself up for the "pain" sessions. I'm originally from the UK (Yorkshire) although my father's family is from Belfast. I moved to Ireland (Cork) in 2005 and have lived and… Read full post
Whilst it may not be the Henley Regatta, for over 400 children in Chelmsley Wood, indoor rowing came to life over the last two weeks.
The children aged 8-11 have been coached the fundamentals of indoor rowing and then had an opportunity to race against pupils from their own school and other schools over a variety of distances.
In the workshops each pupil was introduced to the technical aspects o… Read full post
I began renting an Erg from ISS late last year as a means of trying to lose weight and build a little fitness (At nearly 18st and 5'9" I was 5 stone overweight). However, owing to building work at home I was only able to fully "launch" my craft in January this year.
In a moment of madness I decided to enter the 2012 BIRC (in the 45-49 Hwt category) as a means of keeping myself focused, with the s… Read full post
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