All race reports for Alex Sault

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Event: Cambridge Winter Head 2010 - Student Novice VIIIs
Posted as: Saulty
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We made up in sheer determination for what we lacked in rowing ability.

Although we started off technically well (we were, arguably, gaining on the crew in front off the start), tiredness set in along plough reach, and we were left but nothing but power (albeit deployed in a sub-optimal manner) to get us through.

By the end, we weren't rowing as a crew, squaring early was a distant memory, and our blades were flying around in all directions (rarely in the same one as the man's in front), but we gave it our all right to the end.

Indeed, even as it fell apart (to the great amusement of Swords and Katie on the bank) in the final 500m wind, we were still grunting, roaring, and against all the odds attempting to drive the rate up.

A bloody good show, in my opinion. It must have been the jaffa cakes.