The Hexhaminer September 2018 Welcome to the latest edition of the Hexhaminer, back after its summer break. With everyone now preparing for the Heads series, we are still on the lookout for trailer drivers and are short of a driver for the Tees event on 13 of October. Please contact Catherine if you can help out. Fun in the Sun It’s been a busy summer for the Junior section, with the highlight being their week-long summer camp in Spain. The junior squad faced temperatures in the high thirties when they arrived for their training camp on the beautiful Lake Banyoles in North East Spain, home of the rowing events in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. However, by avoiding the hottest parts of the day,
This is what you would have read in the Hexham Courant today, had they used it. "Hexham rowers were celebrating a convincing farewell to the regatta season after a great performance at Chester-le-Street at the weekend. The Chester-le-Street event is normally held in April and is the first side-by-side racing competition of the year. However, the club’s landings were underwater in the Spring and the regatta had to be re-arranged for the only available date in a crowded rowing calendar. This meant a much-delayed season’s finale, and the Hexham squad were determined to make the most of it on a short and narrow course, which threw up a number of challenges. The first success came for the J15 4x+
First of all, huge congratulations to the HRC Junior Section on their performance at the National Junior Championships at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. For those who didn’t see the details in the Courant, here’s the original report as submitted (and before the reported speech was inserted!) “A small but select team of Hexham RC’s junior rowers competed against crews from the biggest and most prestigious clubs in the country in the National Junior Championship in Nottingham at the weekend. Whilst just missing out on the medals, they all performed brilliantly and confirmed a great deal of promise for the future. Places in the finals at the championships are decided on preliminary time trials a
Summertime... and the training is easy Blink and it’s gone. It seems incredible but the regatta season is almost over, with just Talkin Tarn to come on 7th July, then nothing until the re-arranged Chester-le-Street event on 8th September. After that, the heads season kicks off at Tyne and Tyne United on 6th October. However, that doesn’t mean a summer shutdown for the club... far from it! HRC is in the happy position of having a backlog of prospective rowers just itching to get the chance to join our Learn 2 Row courses. Now that regatta training will be on the back burner for the moment, experienced (and not so experienced) rowers are being asked to give a little of their spare time to help
