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...
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1. Collecting Pots
2. Just Finished 3. Ingers Quiching Off ... [more...] |
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Links
Full May Term 2004 Concept 2 Sprint Relay results
1st men's VIII Concept 2 Sprint Relay results archive
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