Race Report

Milton Keynes crews were racing at the club’s first regatta of the season at Nottingham in May.

Two women’s crews raced at the Masters event with the WE4+ maintaining their winning streak to beat Peterborough in a solid strong row by 2 lengths over the 1000m course with a time of 4.17.2. The WE4+ crew’s first win of the regatta season included Karen Wilson, Paula Heywood, Helen Smith and Suzanne De Maine coxed by Jen Pilcher.

The women’s 8C+ faced an 8 second handicap against 5 other crews fought a hard battle to row through 3 crews in dirty water to finish an impressive 3rd - narrowly missing out on 2nd with a time of 4.00.2. The crew included Karen Wilson, Paula Heywood, Jayne Skeith, Alice Draper, Lisa Goodship, Clare Lawson, Katharine Billingham, Jen Pilcher with Helen Smith debuting her coxing at a major event.

Steve Lawson joined his RAF crew to race in a coxed 4+

In the Open regatta the day before, Charlie Blewitt raced in a composite Northampton/Milton Keynes coxless 4- to come a very close second to Norwich with a time of 6.46.2.