Putney Town Rowing Club

Congratulations to both the mixed vets and the women’s squad this past week for successes at Weybridge and Quintin Heads.

Kosta and Emma won mixed vets doubles at Weybridge Head [results] on the 17th Jan, and the women’s first 8+ won S3 8+ at Quintin Head on the 24th and came 4th overall [results].

Photo by Birdman Photography

Burns Night Quiz (and cultural extravaganza) - 24th January 2009

This annual event is open to all club members, family and friends, and is always a great evening. Broadly speaking:

• 7:00pm – Quiz starts
• 7:45 – 9:00pm  -  Neaps, Tatties, and Haggis, plus cultural input from the previous captain (in a kilt), current president, and a large windbag…
• 9:00pm   Round 2 of the quiz
• Prize giving and the bar is open

Last year we had a great evening with more than 100 people in attendance, including a team from Sons of the Thames who won the quiz, so start reading the encyclopaedias now!

“In the early months of training you’re thinking ‘What the hell is all this for?’ Because the race is so far off. There’s so much tedium and discipline and brutal effort to hammer through. You have to resist the subconscious desire to put an end to all this self-inflicted hardship.

“But as the days pass and you feel yourself getting stronger, you begin to live for the next day. You punish yourself if with a will in training, because you know you’re facing a race that will suspend your life. Somewhere in the race, you will find out what it is you’ve been working for.

“And you’re asking big questions of your body, and when the right answers are coming back, it’s a feeling you know you will never forget.”

— Dan Topolski from TRUE BLUE, The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny