All race reports for Peter Leach

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Event: Lent Bumps 2010 - Saturday
Posted as: Leachy
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Pretty exciting stuff. With the race starting in the middle of a furious hailstorm that reminded some of Helm's Deep, we quickly moved up on Downing (as per normal, despite their race reports). However things soon changed shape as Downing started to come at us from first post corner, and came fairly fast. From the amount of noise being made by the supporters down plough reach, it was getting pretty intense, and just before Ditton they were less than 6 feet from our stern.

We'd discussed the possibility of all of this; however, it came as a nasty surprise that, although around Ditton we pulled it out to quarter of a length, they then stayed there all down the reach. A pretty hellish couple of minutes for some of us!

Coming through the railway bridge we had a surge and after that started to pull away slightly more steadily, crossing the line above station. And after that it was a couple of minutes of pure lactic burn, nice...

Huge kudos to Downing - they proved they were capable of some very serious speed, and gave us an awesome race. But in the end, we got over the finish line: well done boys for such a calm and committed row, it was intense.

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Event: May Bumps 2010 - Wednesday
Posted as: Leachy
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Boys, we may have to revise our original bumps target of 'up 12'.

But great stuff, seriously.

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Event: May Bumps 2010 - Thursday
Posted as: Leachy
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I got a blood blister on my finger under the motorway bridge. It hurts if I press it.

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As yet, I have received no sympathy whatsoever.

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Event: May Bumps 2010 - Friday
Posted as: Leachy
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Nice weather today, boys, well done.

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Event: May Bumps 2010 - Saturday
Posted as: Leachy
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Fortunately, even if you define 'matter' such that rowing does (which isn't necessarily easy; cf. http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh), an M2 doesn't. Huge congrats to M1, you guys deserve every bit of that headship. I don't know what a bit of a headship is, but hopefully you get the idea. P