Indoor Rowing
Durham Amateur Rowing Club enjoys first class indoor rowing faciltiies. Our gym hosts a fleet of Concept 2 rowing machines (ergometers) widely considered to be the best exercise machine in the world.
Indoor rowing is rapidly becoming a sport in its own right with competition ranging for local to world levels. The club has several members who specialise in the indoor discipline of our sport.
Club Member Roger Stainforth is a regular competitor in the Indoor Rowing arena. Most recently Roger competed at the British Indoor Rowing Championships at Cardiff where he secured a personal best of 7 minutes and 4 seconds for a race of 2000 metres.
Another member Gill Prescott took the British, Scottish, European and World Indoor Rowing Championship gold medals in the 50-54 category. Gills gold medal winning world title in Boston USA was taken with a breathtaking 2000m time of 7mins 20.6 seconds. Officially known as the CRASH-B Sprints, the event started in 1982 described as a toung in cheek way for Bostons rowers to saty in shape over the winter. Gills Coach Geoff Graham describes the sport as "a very good substitute" for the real thing. "Although it's static, you need all of the strength and most of the skills that you would on the river.
