The Club's Results
Radegund Mile Head Race, May Term 2008
Head race from the Plough to Two Tees boat shed organised by the St. Radegund Boat Club.
Sun 27th April
The official results published by the organisers, St Radegund Pub, can be found here. At the bottom of this page there is a summary of the results of college crews and a link to Cambridge weather. Club members, please go here to add (or correct) results, crews or race reports.
Training Week VIII, College VIIIs
5th
Time: 6:29
Time: 6:29
We decided to enter this race as the VIII that had done the most rowing in the pre-term training week (except for Sarah who we all missed). After one outing of high rate work we were feeling strangely confident, despite the lack of matching kit, and we had a strong, confident row to show for it. The start was controlled and Mark took an amazing line around Ditton which set us up well for the rest of the race.
The main panic came in around the railway bridge when the balance was off and Fiona screamed in pain (bad knee) and bow side had trouble connecting with the water, but pleasingly we picked it up again and pushed through to the finish.
No time as yet, but the beer and bbq are good ;)
The main panic came in around the railway bridge when the balance was off and Fiona screamed in pain (bad knee) and bow side had trouble connecting with the water, but pleasingly we picked it up again and pushed through to the finish.
No time as yet, but the beer and bbq are good ;)
A strong, confident row. Slightly unbalanced and panicky at the beginning, but brought together sharply coming out of Ditton with a solid row up the Reach.
Rating slightly higher than planned at around 32, but it was controlled and seemed quite comfortable.
A committed push to the finish with all sorts of noises from the boat in addition to the cox speakers!
P.S. Now that the result has come up, I wonder if we entered 6.30 or 6.34 as our predicted time, because if it was the former then that is a bloody good prediction, and we might even win that prize!
Rating slightly higher than planned at around 32, but it was controlled and seemed quite comfortable.
A committed push to the finish with all sorts of noises from the boat in addition to the cox speakers!
P.S. Now that the result has come up, I wonder if we entered 6.30 or 6.34 as our predicted time, because if it was the former then that is a bloody good prediction, and we might even win that prize!
<h3><a name="selectedresults">Selected Results</a></h3><h4>College men's VIIIs</h4><p><pre><b>Pos Club Crew Cat (Est.) Time Diff Prize</b> 1 Christs M1 Upper (5:38) 5:18 -0:20 1st, fastest men's boat 2 Emma M1 Upper (5:11) 5:24 0:13 3 LMBC M3 Upper (5:48) 5:29 -0:19 4 Darwin M1 Upper (6:00) 5:32 -0:28 5 Jesus M2 Upper (5:45) 5:34 -0:11 6 CCAT M2 Lower (6:30) 5:39 -0:51 1st 7 Emma M2 Lower (5:30) 5:50 0:20 8 Christs M2 Lower (5:57) 5:55 -0:02 9 Jesus M3 Lower (6:00) 5:55 -0:05 10 Girton M1 Upper (5:40) 5:56 0:16 11 Jesus M4 Lower (6:20) 6:03 -0:17 12 CCAT M1 Upper (6:30) 6:04 -0:26 13 Clare Hall M1 Upper (6:57) 6:11 -0:46 14 Pembroke M2 Upper (6:12) 6:13 0:01 closest prediction</pre></p><h4>College women's VIIIs</h4><p><pre><b>Pos Club Crew Cat (Est.) Time Diff Prize</b> 1 Christs W1 Upper (6:23) 5:55 -0:28 1st, fastest women's boat 2 Caius W1 Upper (6:30) 6:06 -0:24 3 Kings W1 Upper (6:00) 6:15 0:15 4 Jesus W1 Upper (6:40) 6:18 -0:22 <b> 5 1st and 3rd W1 Upper (6:45) 6:29 -0:16</b> 6 Jesus W2 Lower (7:00) 6:42 -0:18 1st 7 Christs W2 Lower (7:01) 7:28 0:27</pre></p><div align="right"><font size="-1"><a href="#top">^ top</a></font></div><hr>
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