All race reports for Blanka Kesek
Event: May Bumps 2015 - Wednesday
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Rowed over! Felt fine and chilled the whole way down, good starts and bursts. Nerves hit me at the four minute gun when my brain finally realised that we're doing this again, despite many previous vows of "never again".
Good start, especially given that it was from the outflow. We apparently closed on Jesus slightly off the start but never got to any whistleable distance. Newnham starting closing from about First post corner. We took our Plough reach burn which felt good but had little effect as they were taking a push as well. Coming around Ditton they looked worryingly close from my 5th seat. A couple of strokes out of Ditton, they were maybe a canvas away, we took our bumps push, big legs and then raising the rate by a few pips. The push was SUPER EFFECTIVE, pushing Newnham away to about station at the kink. Then it was a, although slightly painful, cakewalk to top finish where they were about two three lengths off. It was one of those rows where you just kinda know that they're never gone get you. YAY
Event: May Bumps 2015 - Thursday
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Au.
Couldn't find the rabbit in the hat.
Event: May Bumps 2015 - Saturday
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So, last day of bumps you sprint. It's a tradition as old as the stomp, bumpers, and all the other silly things we do this week. And we all know it doesn't work. You always end up blowing up and desperately having to push off the crew behind, if at all possible. Yet we still do it cause...tradition. Except today we didn't really have a choice. With christ's behind us hungry for blades, we knew we probably didn't stand much of a chance over 2.7km. So sprinting it was... yay.. The plan was to do the start per normal, and then just pick it up til we bump, racing to the Plough, where whatever was bound to happen would. Except we didn't make it there...
The start went down fine and I think we strode at some point, thought I didn't really notice it much as we'd already gotten our first whistle at that point. The ten on finishes after the stride brought us our second set of whistles, which I believed at the time to be some sort of ill conceived scheme, designed to trick us into... something. Anyway, coming around first post, MT called for our "second to none" bumps push and I figured that I might as well give it a go, even if the whistles are lying, given that we'd basically covered half the distance to the designated fate point already. And the whistles kept blowing. And blowing. And blowing. And then we held it up.
SUREAL!
Having chased them down the reach, coughing and vomiting
on previous days, catching them in the gut without dying prolongely was AMAZING! Sprinting worked! We were stronger, hungrier and faster and so we bumped!
Excited about operation toast next year!!
Event: Lent Bumps 2016 - Saturday
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Girls-well blood sweeted and teared! Shit and down 3 happens. Looking forward to the Mays campaign!
Event: May Bumps 2016 - Thursday
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Shame girls, GET THEM TMR!!!!
