By Mary Merrittsmith
Sunday 17th April saw JOG and LSRA crews racing in all three divisions of Northwich Spring Head. A sunny day perfect for rowing meant success for two crews and positive results to many more.
Division One was for single sculls, Steve came 2nd in the elite category with a time of 9:37.43. Meanwhile, Aaron, Ian and Mary had entered into Novice singles, Aaron came 3rd out of 8 in the men with a time of 10:39.93. Mary came second in womens meandering down the course in a time of 11:47.82 but, considering the only race plan was not to fall in, wasn’t too disappointed. Unfortunately, Ian did capsize after crossing the start line so did not finish the race. Hopefully that was a bad luck one off and it will go better next time!
Division Two featured Jess and Hannah and also Rhianne and Chloe racing in the J15 doubles class and the boys (Andy, Tom, Robin and Keiran) racing in their IM3 coxless quad. Jess and Hannah were in 5th place with a good time of 11:34.36 and in 6th place were Rhianne and Chloe with 11.52.22. The boys came 3rd with a time of 9:31.30. Aaron and Steve were going to race in the IM1 category in this division but had to scratch after Steve rather overdid it in Division 1.
Finally Division Three and the sun was still beating down. A long wait at the start due to launches down the course running out of fuel meant that the W.IM3 4+ could test out the cox box and wake up most of Cheshire with cox Dylan shouting “Is this loud enough?”… Finally we could start and first to race were the JOG/LUBC composite of Mary, Caroline, Alice (LUBC) and Laura with Dylan coxing. The pressure was on to keep up Dylan’s 100% winning streak, luckily they did win, spurred on by him forgetting the instructions that Aaron had given about a build at the finish, and instead yelling “BEAST IT!!!” down the last 700m, resulting in an exciting bit of racing to try and overtake the opposition. They came in with a time of 10:06.16. Racing just behind the four were Phil and Phil in a Masters E 2x, this was a tough race with lots of blades clashing and they came 3rd with a time of 10:06.64. The last crew of the day to race was another medal winning one, Laura, Shona, Ellie and Amy in their W.IM3 4x- finished with a magnificent time of 9:57.96.
So a good day was had by most (and not only because of the yummy cakes that Rhianne made), the last head race of the season gave some healthy looking results and hopefully will mean lots more medals in the coming few months of regatta season.
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