Summertime

And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high
Oh your daddy’s rich and your ma is good lookin’
So hush little baby, don’t you cry

Right, that’s your little Sonny and Cher rendition over with for another year (thank god for that). Yes, oarsfolks of Bristol, summer is nearly upon us again. Sunshine is guaranteed this weekend, as both the women and men head off to Dorney Lake for seat racing. Squad coaches will be selecting crews, looking to put City of Bristol RC on the map once again at this year’s summer regattas. There’ll be adrenaline, there’ll be sweat, there’ll be calls of nature in tuppaware, there’ll be kit failure, there’ll be body failure. There will be success. Good luck to everyone racing.

For rowing geeks out there (i.e. anyone reading this), here’s a little something Gurt wrote back in the summer of 2004.

http://www.oarsport.co.uk/training/guide.php?article=crew_selection