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11th Jun '17May Bumps 2017by CE
Welcome to First and Third and our coverage of the 2017 May Bumps.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our results page.

Six First and Third crews will be racing this week.

Division times:

   Wed-Fri Sat
M5 1345 1145
W4 1430 1230
M4 1515 1315
W3 1600 1400
M3 1645 1445
W2 1730 1530
M2 1815 1615
W1 1900 1700
M1 1945 1745
(10 replies...)
23rd Feb '18Lent Bumps 2018by CE
Welcome to First and Third and our coverage of the 2018 Lent Bumps.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our results page.

Six First and Third crews will be racing this week.

Division times:

      Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
M4/W4 1400 1400 1400 - 1240
W3 1440 1440 - 1320 1320
M3 1520 1520 - 1400 1400
W2 1600 - 1440 1440 1440
M2 1640 - 1520 1520 1520
W1 - 1600 1600 1600 1600
M1 - 1640 1640 1640 1640
28th Feb '17Lent Bumps 2017by CE
Welcome to First and Third and our coverage of the 2017 Lent Bumps.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our results page.

Five First and Third crews will be racing this week.

Division times:

      Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
M4/W4 1400 1400 1400 - 1240
W3 1440 1440 - 1320 1320
M3 1520 1520 - 1400 1400
W2 1600 - 1440 1440 1440
M2 1640 - 1520 1520 1520
W1 - 1600 1600 1600 1600
M1 - 1640 1640 1640 1640
(3 replies...)
8th Jun '16May Bumps 2016by PPP
Welcome to First and Third and our coverage of the 2016 May Bumps.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our results page.

Seven First and Third crews will be racing this week.

Division times:

   Wed-Fri Sat
M5 1345 1145
W4 1430 1230
M4 1515 1315
W3 1600 1400
M3 1645 1445
W2 1730 1530
M2 1815 1615
W1 1900 1700
M1 1945 1745

(18 replies...)
23rd Feb '16Lent Bumps 2016by PPP
Welcome to First and Third and our coverage of the 2016 Lent Bumps.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our results page.

Six First and Third crews will be racing this week.

Division times:

   Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
M4 1400 1400 1400 - 1240
W3 1440 1440 - 1320 1320
M3 1520 1520 - 1400 1400
W2 1600 - 1440 1440 1440
M2 1640 - 1520 1520 1520
W1 - 1600 1600 1600 1600
M1 - 1640 1640 1640 1640
(19 replies...)
10th Jun '15May Bumps 2015by PPP
Welcome to First and Third's coverage of the 2015 May Bumps.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our results page.

Don't forget to enter BumpIT, and look out for live timings.

Six First and Third crews will be racing this week.

Division times:

      Wed-Fri Sat
M1 1945 1745
W1 1900 1700
M2 1815 1615
W2 1730 1530
M3 1645 1445
W3 1600 1400
M4 1515 1315
M5 1430 1230
M6&W4 1345 1145

Good luck to all!

(21 replies...)
21st Feb '15Lent Bumpsby PPP
Welcome to First and Third's 2015 Lent Bumps coverage.

Messages from the towpath will appear below, and you can find the latest Bumps charts on our Lents results page.

Five First and Third crews will be racing, starting in divisions M1-3 and W1-2. Racing is from Wednesday to Saturday at the following times:

M1    1640
W1 1600
M2 1520
W2 1440
M3 1400
M4&W3 1320

Good luck to all!

 (22 replies...)
4th Jun '14May Bumps Updatesby JSB
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Mays Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page.

The Mays begin at 1.45pm on Wednesday - the full division (racing) times are as follows:

Division  Wed-Fri  Sat
M1        19:45    17:45
W1        19:00    17:00
M2        18:15    16:15
W2        17:30    15:30
M3        16:45    14:45
W3        16:00    14:00
M4        15:15    13:15
M5        14:30    12:30
M6/W4     13:45    11:45

We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (23 replies...)
22nd Feb '14Lents Bumps Updatesby JSB
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page.

The Lents begin at 2.40pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division   Tue       Wed       Thu       Fri       Sat
M1         -         16:40     16:40     16:40     16:40
W1         -         16:00     16:00     16:00     16:00
M2         16:40     -         15:20     15:20     15:20
W2         16:00     -         14:40     14:40     14:40
M3         15:20     15:20     -         14:00     14:00
M4/W3      14:40     14:40     -         13:20     13:20


We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (19 replies...)
9th Jun '13Mays Bumps Updatesby JSB
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Mays Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP.

The Mays begin at 1.00pm on Wednesday - the full division (racing) times are as follows:

Division  Wed-Fri  Sat
M1        19:45    17:45
W1        19:00    17:00
M2        18:15    16:15
W2        17:30    15:30
M3        16:45    14:45
W3        16:00    14:00
M4        15:15    13:15
W4        14:30    12:30
M5        13:45    11:45
M6/W5     13:00    11:00


We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (35 replies...)
24th Feb '13Lent Bumps Updatesby JSB
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Lents begin at 2.00pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division   Tue       Wed       Thu       Fri       Sat
M1         -         16:40     16:40     16:40     16:40
W1         -         16:00     16:00     16:00     16:00
M2         16:40     -         15:20     15:20     15:20
W2         16:00     -         14:40     14:40     14:40
M3         15:20     15:20     -         14:00     14:00
W3         14:40     14:40     -         13:20     13:20
M4         14:00     14:00     14:00     -         12:40


We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (30 replies...)
9th Jun '12May Bumps Updatesby PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows:
Division   Wed-Fri  Sat
Men's 6    13:00    11:00
Men's 5    13:45    11:45
Women's 4  14:30    12:30
Men's 4    15:15    13:15
Women's 3  16:00    14:00
Men's 3    16:45    14:45
Women's 2  17:30    15:30
Men's 2    18:15    16:15
Women's 1  19:00    17:00
Men's 1    19:45    17:45
We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (40 replies...)
25th Feb '12Lent Bumps Updatesby PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Lents begin at 1.20pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows:
Division  Tue    Wed    Thu    Fri    Sat
M1        -      16:40  16:40  16:40  16:00
W1        16:40  16:00  16:00  16:00  -
M2        16:00  -      15:20  15:20  15:00
W2        15:20  15:20  14:40  14:40  -
M3        14:40  14:40  -      14:00  14:00
W3        14:00  14:00  14:00  13:20  -
M4        13:20  13:20  13:20  -      13:00

We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (46 replies...)
12th Jun '11May Bumps Updatesby PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division   Wed-Fri  Sat
Men's 6    13:00    11:00
Men's 5    13:45    11:45
Women's 4  14:30    12:30
Men's 4    15:15    13:15
Women's 3  16:00    14:00
Men's 3    16:45    14:45
Women's 2  17:30    15:30
Men's 2    18:15    16:15
Women's 1  19:00    17:00
Men's 1    19:45    17:45

We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (48 replies...)
26th Feb '11Lent Bumps Updateby PC
Welcome to FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Lents begin at 2pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division  Tue    Wed    Thu    Fri    Sat
M1        -      16:40  16:40  16:40  16:40
W1        -      16:00  16:00  16:00  16:00
M2        16:40  -      15:20  15:20  15:20
W2        16:00  -      14:40  14:40  14:40
M3        15:20  15:20  -      14:00  14:00
W3        14:40  14:40  -      13:20  13:20
M4        14:00  14:00  14:00  -      12:40


We hope you enjoy our results service again. Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (42 replies...)
5th Jun '10May Bumps Updatesby PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division   Wed-Fri  Sat
Men's 6    13:00    11:00
Men's 5    13:45    11:45
Women's 4  14:30    12:30
Men's 4    15:15    13:15
Women's 3  16:00    14:00
Men's 3    16:45    14:45
Women's 2  17:30    15:30
Men's 2    18:15    16:15
Women's 1  19:00    17:00
Men's 1    19:45    17:45

We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (33 replies...)
22nd Feb '10Lent Bumps Updatesby bjg
Welcome to FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Lents begin at 2pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division  Tue    Wed    Thu    Fri    Sat
M1        -      16:40  16:40  16:40  16:40
W1        -      16:00  16:00  16:00  16:00
M2        16:40  -      15:20  15:20  15:20
W2        16:00  -      14:40  14:40  14:40
M3        15:20  15:20  -      14:00  14:00
W3        14:40  14:40  -      13:20  13:20
M4        14:00  14:00  14:00  -      12:40
We hope you enjoy our results service again. Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (34 replies...)
7th Jun '09May Bumps updatesby bjg
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS.

The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows:

Division   Wed-Fri  Sat
Men's 6    13:00    11:00
Women's 5  13:05    11:05
Men's 5    13:45    11:45
Women's 4  14:30    12:30
Men's 4    15:15    13:15
Women's 3  16:00    14:00
Men's 3    16:45    14:45
Women's 2  17:30    15:30
Men's 2    18:15    16:15
Women's 1  19:00    17:00
Men's 1    19:45    17:45
We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing!

Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (37 replies...)
25th Jul '09May term round-upby FG
In sports, right at the heart of every competition lie the nonnegotiable principles of victory and loss. Whilst victories are pleasant and therefore easy to take, it is the losses that test every athlete's sportsmanship. Emerging from defeats with an ever increasing hunger for improvement requires true determination and power of will.
Currently, First and Third are having a stretch of incredible success, but at the same time need to be prepared for tougher times ahead and not let complacency enter into their training.

After a lot of hard work and the odd blip, this term and indeed whole year became pleasant, enjoyable and successful. The first men's eight won all major university competitions: Fairbairn's eights and fours, Lent bumps, May bumps and two events in the Small Boats Regatta (Miles Galloway in the Bushe-Fox Freshman Sculls, Tom Coker in the Fairbairn Junior Sculls). First and Third have defended the Lents headship for the third year running, as well as the Mays headship for the second year in a row, the latter having been achieved by First and Third last in 1967 (by the same crew that went on to win the Ladies Plate, marking the last win of a Henley race by a First and Third crew).

Off the Cam, First and Third again proved their strength and won a number of head races in their category (formerly Senior 3), notably Kingston Head, Head of the Trent and the Head of the River Race (S3 academic, known as the Halladay Trophy). The latter race was finished at a remarkable position of 53rd overall, the highest an Oxbridge college crew has ranked in many years.

Importantly, the club can still carry on improving a long way, both in squad depth as well as in quality of top level rowers. The first men's eight for instance was comfortably beaten by the university men's lightweight crew in both 2k as well as 5k sparring by considerable margins.

In the light of the opening statement, we need to take the enthusiasm and joy of our current success and keep them up in training, such that changes in the squad are less damaging. The success First and Third have had this year built on what was started some years ago, and is a result of constant work. Looking ahead, therefore, to subsequent years, it is crucial that despite the current success and strength of the first eight, athletes are constantly being developed to a standard where they can fill in any holes left by those graduating, in either the first eights or the lower boats. It is also important that those athletes who novice in Cambridge are continually being trained up to first eight standard, and are not discouraged by those entering the club with prior rowing experience who might only initially be of a higher standard.

The women had a more difficult year ahead but developed well as the year progressed. Owing to the fact that most of their experienced rowers had left Cambridge at the end of last year, the first women's eight contained a large fraction of novice athletes. Despite this seeming a disadvantage, the women did very well by holding an excellent second place in the Lent bumps and losing only to Downing by 0.1s in the Novice category of the Women's Head of the River Race. They also won the Fairbairn's Fours competition and were runner up in the final of the coxed fours at the Uni Fours races, an excellent result as well. In subsequent years, I hope that the women will also work on novice development, as they already have impressively shown this year.

It is also great to see a number of First and Third members represent the university boat clubs, namely John Kiely (2 seat in the lightweight blue boat), James Strawson (bow seat in the Goldie crew), Rachel Croft (6 seat in the Blondie crew) and Sasha Kasas (CUBC spare man). Most of them returned to represent First and Third in the May bumps this year (apart from James Strawson whose training commitment with CUBC continued past the Boat Race) and provided input to the strength of their crews.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the rowers, coxes, coaches and members of the committee who have contributed to making First and Third so successful and enjoyable this year. Iain Law has yet again proven his ability to turn crews that look less experienced on paper (such as the Lents W1 with 5 novices) into great successes, and surprisingly manages to stay sane when we present him with countless boat and equipment breakages. Tom Rose and Jonathan Davies have done a fantastic job coaching the upper men's crews, in both motivating the squad and providing valuable coaching. Both personally and on behalf of the whole club, I would like to thank David Jones for his efforts in coaching First and Third crews not only this year, but over many years. He has inspired, motivated and improved generations of particularly second men's eight crews who, for a great number of years, could look forward to David's return the fortnight before Lent and May bumps and coaching in his very own unique style. Many athletes who have been coached by David have expressed their sadness that he shall not be returning to coach First and Third crews, but at the same time wish him all the best for his future retirement from coaching.
Peter Summers, Dan Holland, Phil Horler, Jenny Lee, Jon Glass, Neil Talbott, Simon Blackburn and Ming-Chee Chung have all provided excellent coaching for crews of all abilities, men and women, and the club owes great thanks to everyone for their continued support.

Great thanks are also owed to Martin Peck, who is doing a fantastic job keeping the website running and providing excellent quality bumps photos, Richard Bullock for his help in pushing off crews in bumps and also making it down for most bumps at least as far as I can remember. Thanks also to Nick Kingsbury and Peter Brandt, both excellent supporters of First and Third naturally, in helping out with their advice and supporting First and Third crews on the bank, and also to Richard Dewire and Dan Darley who are doing a fantastic job in running the First and Third Association. Thanks also to all the bufties who put up First and Third crews for races, in particular Simon Blackburn, Matt Byrne and Erica Thompson, as well as the O'Neill family.

Personally, I would also like to thank this year's committee who have done most of the hard work in making the club work.

This leaves me to wish next year's committee the best of luck - May luck and good spirits be on their side. To yet another successful year!

Ollie Ollie First and Third (which is the '67 style of cheering)!

Florian Gruessing
Captain 2008-09.
22nd Mar '09Lent term round-upby FG
Lent term has been a huge success. First and Third is the fastest College club amongst all Oxbridge Colleges.

The first men successfully defended their Head of the Lents position with four consecutive row-overs ahead of Lady Margaret (day one) and Downing, crossing the finish line with comfortable four to six lengths leads. At the Head of the River Race, the first men took 53rd place, the best result an Oxbridge College has achieved in a very long while. Victory in the S3 category and of the Halladay trophy were only narrowly missed, losing to the University of Bristol and Westminster School by 6 and 3 seconds, respectively. S3 was won at both the Nottingham Head of the Trent and the Kingston Head of the River. This clearly places First and Third at the top of any Oxbridge College by a long way and I am proud to be in a position to say that.

In the bumps, the first women very impressively bumped Jesus to take back second place on day three, after having gone down to Emma and Jesus on days one and two, respectively, and rowed over in second place behind Emma and well clear of Jesus on the final day. This achievement is particularly admirable as more than half their boat was made up of rowers who had noviced in Michaelmas term this year. The whole club is extremely proud of what they have done, and I would like to use this opportunity to once again congratulate them on a fantastic bumps week!

The second women went up a very good two places, to end up in the second women's division, where they have a good starting point to really attack it next year.

The second men, going down two overall to end up as sandwich boat for divisions one and two in a very strong field of college first boats, defended the second eights headship as did the third and fourth men, all competing against other colleges' higher counterparts. Unfortunately, the fifth men did not qualify in an unlucky Getting-on-Race.


Despite the success in this year's Lent bumps, defending the men's headship, we decided not to burn a boat. This is somewhat of a break with tradition and came about as a necessity owing to the fact that we are running out of wooden boats. This leaves very much the hope that we will be able to make up for the lack of celebration come Mays, fingers crossed (or rather keep on training)!


Not only did First and Third do very well in races on the Cam, but also at off-Cam races. Winning the S3 category at both Nottingham Head of the Trent and Kingston Head showed that for the first time in a while a College boat, genuinely made up of College rowers without shipping in a whole load of blues, is competitive outside the Cambridge rowing world. I am absolutely delighted that I can be part of such exciting times and in fact the crew, and it is a pleasure to be in a position to go to off-Cam races and be able to have a shot at winning a category. The success we had in Lent term gives hope for next term, where some university rowers will be returning to make up an even stronger boat!

With all this excitement about First and Third's success it is important to realise that there is a long way to go and lots of improvement can be made. The first men went out to Ely twice to sparr with the CULRC blue boat, and were beaten easily on both a 2k and 5k race. This gives us something to aim at, in particular given the leightweights do not have any advantage in physical build being of similar figure to us.

One of the goals of my captaincy is to establish First and Third at the top of college level rowing. In the short term, this goal so far was achieved. However, in the long run, there is a lot more work to do, in particular in recruiting new athletes which will make up the upper boats in a few years' time. On the women's side, this has been coped with well this term, illustrated by the impressive performance of the first women. On the men's side, integrating novices into the senior boats was considerably more difficult, with a strong squad of experienced upper boat rowers. However, it is important that room is made for new people to climb up the ladder well before the more experienced athletes leave. Should this not happen, we will see First and Third undergo the (perhaps usual) cycle of College rowing, where a few good years of success are followed by not so few bad years. I am and will continue doing everything I can to contribute my part in making sure this will not happen.

We also owe great thanks to all the coaches who have been involved and contributed to First and Third performing well this term. These are namely Iain Law and Jenny Lee on the women's side and Tom Rose, Jon Davies, Iain Law and David Jones on the men's side. Thanks too to all the guest coaches who have helped out wherever possible, we very much appreciate all your efforts and the time you spend supporting First and Third.

I look forward to a very exciting, sunny and warm Easter term with lots of opportunities for good rowing, races and barbecues.


Florian Gruessing,
Lent term 2009

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