We are pleased to announce that the British Indoor Rowing Championship for the 2011/12 indoor rowing season will take place on Sunday 25th March 2012 at Nottingham University. We were initially disappointed to lose our slot at the NIA, especially as we had dates in their schedule until 2013, but have viewed it as a positive and taken the opportunity to look at a number of the new venues that are cropping up in London, a couple of those looked great but unfortunately were ring fenced for a small sporting event that is taking place in the summer of 2012 in London, so were not available for this year! Thankfully, through our friend Nigel Mayglothling – the man with the mic – we have been able to find a location that can cater for all of the requirements of the event.

As last year we will be opening registration for the event 6 months before the race and will be offering the first 150 entrants a free gift to get the ball rolling. Follow us on Twitter and/or Facebook to be the first to know when entries are open. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Nottingham on the 25th March 2012.

Virtual BIRC

In addition to the main event next March we will also be holding a virtual British IRC on the evening of Saturday 26th November 2011. Up to 16 competitors will be able to compete in each race, head to head live via the internet, using Digital Rowing's RowPro software. Entries will be taken in advance and races will be scheduled in the days leading up to the race night. A BIRC on-line section of the Concept2 website will be created for competitors to enter and display results. More information on what you will need to participate will be available shortly, in the meantime you can trial the RowPro software free for 20 days by downloading it from digitalrowing.com