The pair only began training together for their rowing challenge at the start of this month.

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The rowing team were on their annual training camp in the Spanish town in preparation for fielding two crews against Cambridge in March.

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Jennings has only been doing cycling specific training for two weeks after a heavy rowing season but she dominated the time trial at Ballyboughal with Siobhan Jacobs a minute and three seconds back after the 20km.

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Both the Russian slalom team and the Chinese rowing team used the centre for a six-week training camp in 2010.

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The bad weather over the winter made training difficult for many of the Cornish gig clubs with some crews switching to indoor rowing sessions.

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