{"id":2317,"date":"2022-10-30T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:45:19","slug":"freshwater-sprints-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Freshwater Sprints success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Club captain Marianne writes<\/strong>: Anne P, Ewan G, Taciana, May, Louise, Maria, Lynn, and a random wee bloke in a club hoodie going by the name of &#8216;Marvin&#8217;, represented QRC in the South-East Region team at the Loch Tummel Freshwater Sprints on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slightly misty, but calm, autumnal day saw short, sharp sprint racing between the regions that tested the rowers, coxes and umpires alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well done to Ewan for his first gold medal in the M210 sprint and no longer being a novice! (Marvin got one too.) I hope his kidneys weren&#8217;t too bruised after the pummelling he received from the rower in two!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52465286425_6d0af5dee0_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>The winning crew &#8211; that&#8217;s Marvin second from left. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two longer 1.5 km races at the end of the programme around a single buoy provided new umpires with a stiff ask of their freshly acquired skills. They also provided a talking point over the rules approaching turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well done to May for stepping up to race cox, and for her part in what was obviously a hotly contested buoy turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great racing and coxing from everyone &#8211; a good number of seconds and thirds, often in men&#8217;s races, which were bolstered by honorary blokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club captain Marianne writes: Anne P, Ewan G, Taciana, May, Louise, Maria, Lynn, and a random wee bloke in a club hoodie going by the name of &#8216;Marvin&#8217;, represented QRC in the South-East Region team at the Loch Tummel Freshwater Sprints on Saturday. A slightly misty, but calm, autumnal day saw short, sharp sprint racing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freshwater Sprints success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}