This was a big day for Borth; for the first time in our 10 year history we fielded crews in each event; Seniors, Ladies, Juniors and Mixed.

The weather was difficult for Aberdyfi Rowing Club, but they managed to organise some good racing. The racing was changed to a timed event as we couldn't row out to sea, because of the rough seas, and they also changed the course for each race as the weather conditions changed. Thankyou Aberdyfi for a good day's racing.

The ladies raced first, and...

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I've added a site for writing a blog on the Celtic Challenge for Borth Rowing Club.

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We had another good weekend training for the challenge. This is our last big effort, as we travel to Ireland on Thursday, to Row on Saturday.

All is looking good. From the organisation perspective we still have one or two things to do, but they should be sorted by Wedesday. All the Rowers are looking good, and eveyone seems to still be looking forward to it. I personally can't wait now for the event to start.

We are still raising money for Mind and doing reasonably well at that as well.

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Trained hard again this weekend, and we will continue to train hard this week, as well as doing boat maintenance and all the other preparation that needs to be done prior to the Challenge weekend. We Rowed on Wednesday and Friday night, three times on Saturday and twice on Sunday.

In the middle of all that we went to Dale Sailing on Friday to pick up our new Celtic Longboat. The boat number is 72 but we haven't given it a name yet. The last boat was named by the school childern at Borth Primar...
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Our Rowing training went well this weekend. Borth Rowing Club trained on Friday night, we used a RIB on Saturday afternoon to practice boat transfers, being out on the water for about 3 and a 1/2 hours. We then rowed on Saturday evening with two crews going out to the Bouys by Aberdyfi. On Sunday we had a couple of crews out from 7 am and again in the evening at 7pm. Each row was designed to get everyone rowing hard for an hour.

Sarah and I managed 5 Rows in 3 days and each one was fairly hard...
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We got home last night and went for an Indian (yummy)..

Met Kathy in there and talked a lot about the Celtic. We have also spoken to Martyn and the everyone seems really entusiastic :D.

We are having our first row for two and a half months tonight, and intend rowing nearly every day from now until the end of the month.

Sue and Rachel have sorted out Accomodation and transport.

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