The Club's Results
Concept 2 Sprint Relay, May Term 2004
1st men's VIII (Men's 1st Mays)
1st men's VIII | |||
bow | Rob Andrews | 2 | Grzegorz Milos |
3 | Matt Chamberlain | 4 | Daniel Holland |
5 | Andrew Lea-Cox | 6 | Graham Sills |
7 | Chris Mycroft | str | Chris Ingram |
Winners
Time: 11:52.9
Time: 11:52.9
Coming into this on the back of a double Head course and a 9k AT piece the day before, we weren't totally confident. However, Rob kicked us off with a storming 1:24 and a 1 length lead. Gregor and Matt consolidated and it remained close between us Caius and the Maggie-scum. Ciptin Din then pulled a storming erg (complete with awesome changeover) that left us with a significant lead before Andrew stepped up and pulled a much better 500m than he had led us to believe he would. It was still close but Graham put in a great 500m to open out a lead and then The Mycroft Monster took over. Other crews had kept their best to last but our cunning strategy paid off with Chris leaving the erg with a 50m lead. Unfortunately a botched changeover (Chris' leg got stuck in the holder causing me to row without legs for the first part) immediately reduced it to 40m and their monster last man (1:22!!!) started closing. However, I did a bit of maths and realised that a 1:29 or so split would get us home so I paced [quiched] myself down to 1:29 and held that to the end knowing that I probably could have lifted it a little if absolutely necessary. Anyway, it wasn't necessary and we won by a healthy 3.1 sec.
Hurrah! Now if we can just learn to row...
Hurrah! Now if we can just learn to row...
1. Collecting Pots
2. Just Finished 3. Ingers Quiching Off ... [more...] |
||||||||
Links
Full May Term 2004 Concept 2 Sprint Relay results
1st men's VIII Concept 2 Sprint Relay results archive
Compare this time with all Concept 2 Sprint Relay times in the archive