{"id":6382,"date":"2012-04-16T23:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2012-04-16T23:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:29:08","slug":"rowing-at-abingdon-on-thames-and-soon-henley-on-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6382","title":{"rendered":"Rowing at Abingdon-on-Thames &#8211; an early season time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041708.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday 400 crews came to Abingdon to row the 2000 meters from Culham Lock to Wilsham Road as part of the 2012 Spring Head of the River time-trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon Rowing Club don&#8217;t get to row as they are all busy officiating.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041712.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nIt is an early season event but in this picture it looks like a race away from Didcot A before the smouldering giant finally blows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041704.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nThese guys made it to the finishing line.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041724.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nAfter their race, our Abingdon stewards asked boats to keep moving. There is no real time for a post mortem. &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m so sorry, I just lost it totally near the end. <\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041722.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nThe 400 crews, 100 in each of 4 times slots, row back to the landing stages in Rye Farm Meadow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041723.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nCarry their own boat back to the trailer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12041706.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Head of The River\" \/><br \/>\nOnly then is there the chance to put their feet up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 400 crews came to Abingdon to row the 2000 meters from Culham Lock to Wilsham Road as part of the 2012 Spring Head of the River time-trial. The Abingdon Rowing Club don&#8217;t get to row as they are all busy officiating. It is an early season event but in this picture it looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}