CrossFit Rockford

So I got an email yesterday from Concept 2, and it turns out that the Scottish Indoor Rowing Championship is in 2 weeks in Edinburgh.

Checking out the times from last year and my current time for 2,000m, I am going to enter it tomorrow. My time would have got me a top 20 place.

I dont plan on doing much specific race training as it is too close but I will be doing a couple of 2,000m rows this week.

Awesome Davie, I would imagine the competition will get even more out of you.

Danny,

Do you think we should row a 2000 next week to see how we stack up??

Andy

Sounds good Andy, but whats this 'we' business I know where I rank, well below you.

Saturday

At the Scottish Indoor Rowing Championship today, in Edinburgh. I entered the Mens 30+ Heavyweight 1,000m and the Mens Heavyweight Open 2,000m.

We got there early to register and watched a few of the early races - kids 2min races and some of the team events.

My first race was the 1,000m. My PB for this distance was 3min 17sec before today so I had planed on rowing a 1min 38 split and if I had anything left at the last 250m I would try and kick it.


(thats me in the middle with the big hair and manly stubble)

Got on the rower and had a wee warm up just before the race started and found that the rower was a lot easier to row on that the ones we have in the gym.

My split for the first 500m was 1min 35sec and for the final 500m it dropped to 1min 32sec giving me a new PB of 3mins 7 sec



When I got my breath back I had a bout 2 hours till my next race. I had planned on going for a 1min 45 split for the first 1,500m of this race but after the first race I though I could get a better time. I dont know what my split times were on this one as we left before they were posted.



However, I managed to get a time of 6min 49 secs which is a PB by 5secs and the first time I have been under 6mins and 50secs



I had a great day and I will definetley be entering this again next year. Will be posting some video up later when I get the footage from Brians camera

Big thanks to Jackie and Cameron, Brian and Julie and Malky a Wee Julie for coming along to cheer me on!

Way to represent Davie, 3:07 is smokin', and sub 7 min 2k as well. Nicely done!

Thanks Coach D

Heres a video of my 1,000m race

Scottish IRC

Davie,

That's some fantastic rowing. Obvoiusly the competition brought out your inner rower!

Nice Job!

Woo Hoo...the results for the 2,000m race are in - I got 16th out of 23! Im really happy with that as I didnt do any specific rowing training for it.

Here is a list of my times and places

David Easton Men 30+ H - 1,000m

TIME 3:07.5

Distance 500m 1,000m
Split 1:35.1 1:32.4

Av 500m Pace 1:33.8

Mens 30+ Hwt

1 Gordon Shaw 2:52.5
2 Phil Craze Berwick Amateur Rowing Club 3:00.1
3 Richard Papworth 3:01.1
4 John Davies Mad Team IRC 3:07.4
5 David Easton 3:07.5
6 Glyn Lloyd 3:11.7
7 Mike Foran Clydesdale ARC 3:12.4
8 Jan Wildenhain St Andrew BC 3:13.1
9 Scott Beveridge 3:14.4
10 John Denovan Stirling RC 3:16.9
11 Rob Loder-Symonds B&I Trans-Atlantic Rowing 3:25.8
12 Neil Barnes Clyde ARC 3:27.7
13 Alan Strang Scotland the Wave 3:28.5
14 Mark Hanlon 4:03.4

David Easton MenOH - 2,000m

Time 6:49.3

Distance 500m 1,000m 1,500m 2,000m

Time 1:42.6 3:26.9 5:10.4 6:49.3
Split 1:42.6 1:44.3 1:43.5 1:38.9

Av 500m Pace 1:42.3

Mens Open Hwt 2,000m

1 Chris Rae Clydesdale ARC 6:14.6
2 Bryan Schooling Aberdeen BC 6:19.4
3 Ian Dryburgh Heart of Scotland BC 6:22.4
4 James Murphy Clyde ARC 6:22.4
5 Andrew Crosland Aberdeen Boat Club 6:24.9
6 Nicko Dalton Molesey / Quintin 6:25.6
7 Sebastian Miller Nottingham RC 6:29.8
8 Phil Craze Berwick Amateur Rowing Club 6:30.5
9 Neil Binnington Bodyzone Gym 6:33.1
10 Mike Rees-Lee 6:33.4
11 Iain Bohler Heart of Scotland BC 6:37.0
12 Ales Korvas 6:38.4
13 Gordon Miller Club Aegon 6:40.0
14 Chris Pollock Heart of Scotland BC 6:47.9
15 Mark Dickson 6:48.2
16 David Easton 6:49.3
17 Jan Wildenhain St Andrew BC 6:51.0
18 Kevin Anderson RMRMARA 6:54.3
19 Brison Ellinghaus St Andrew BC 6:56.1
20 Ross Howison 6:59.0
21 Ian Dennison St Andrew BC 7:02.4
22 David Turnbull 7:02.6
23 Neil Barnes Clyde ARC 7:18.1