Summer Training

Summer training begins as soon as rowers are out of school and practices are held at 7:00 AM until 9:30 AM. More advanced athletes sometimes go back on the water for a second row at about 10:00 AM, and there is an optional 4:00 PM row three days a week.

There is activity every weekend during the summer season, beginning with the July 1st Canada Day training camp to Ottawa. Summer rowers row in touring boats from Kingston to Ottawa arriving in the capital on Canada Day. This trek covers about 150 km over 4 days and kicks off the summer season.

There are then regattas almost every weekend beginning with the Central Ontario Rowing Association Championships in early July. The next weekend is the St. Catharine's Invitational, and the weekend after that are the Rowontario Championships.

Following this is one weekend off before the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta which is a 5-day regatta starting on the Wednesday of the second week of August. Like Schoolboy, for a rower to attend Henley, they must have met their ergometer standard.

All summer regattas are two-day events with the exception of Henley, and races are 2000 metres in length. After Henley there is a 2 week break before the fall season starts again.

Details

Cost: TBA
Date: Late June - August
Where: Bayside Rowing Club (see map)
When: Mon-Fri 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.