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After having a good time at Chester Head in 2024, a few LBC club members decided to try out Chester Regatta, with the risk of steering towards an oncoming pleasure boat more than offset by the wide and relatively bend free river. Despite bathing us in glorious sunshine at the head race, Saturday demonstrated the…

LBC haven’t visited Chester to race in their Head of the Dee race for a few years, but with Burton Head being cancelled due to the weather, a number of club members were keen to test their racing prowess on a new course. And it turned out to be a good choice, with the sunshine…

With Winter training in full swing, LBC decided to refurbish the Gym with new flooring and new weights equipment. Thanks to Charlie, Matt and Elliot for all the hard work getting everything built! Now sporting two multi-purpose weights cages, three benches, new dumbbells, new bars and new weights, not to mention a new coat of…

Milton Keynes regatta is the last side by side sprint race of the season, and unusually is held over a straight line 500m course on a lake. This can cause some LBC crews challenges as we are more used to going around bends, and some may say was the reason a number of crews opted…

Falling close to the end of the summer regatta season, Bradford is the event where a lot of Juniors try out racing for the first time. This was the case for some LBC juniors this year, and also an LBC senior who is still quite new to the sport. With singles, doubles, quads, a coxed…

Unlike most rowing races that are either short sprints or time-trial style ‘head races’ of up to 7km, the annual Great Ouse Marathon is a real endurance test at 21.5k of racing through the fens from West Norfolk Rowing club to the Isle of Ely rowing club. For many, the hardest part is the 1.5k…

Stourport is LBC’s last ‘camping regatta’ of the season and from personal memory tends to throw all extremes of weather at the rowers, despite it being August. This year we must have (mostly) been well behaved, as only a couple of rowers got wet on the Saturday and the weather gods smiled on us for…

In association with British Rowing, LBC will be hosting learn to row courses for juniors and adults from the 7th September through to December with outings on Saturdays and week day evenings. Attendees will be supported by qualified coaches and all equipment will be provided. Its a great way to get fit whilst having fun…

Bewdley is another one of LBC’s favourite regattas, and one where the camper vans and tents come out for what is (sometimes) a blast of summer. This year we had a bit of rain on the Sunday (sorry Natalie!) but then the sun came out in all its glory sending crews to search out a…