The Club's Results

Foster Fairbairn Pairs, May Term 2006

Garrod/Shepherd (Men's 2-)

Coxless pairs
in Amartya Sen
bow Bryn Garrod str Jacob Shepherd
Raced 3 rounds: Lost to Darby/Davis (Christ's) by 17s in the final
Quarter finals
Beat Hunsley/Potter (Pembroke) by turning up
We suffered from indecision about what we were doing during our row over, so didn't exactly race it and didn't exactly paddle it... We more just spacked. At least it gave us the confidence that, however slow we were, at least we were going to make it around the course. (BJ)
Semi finals
Beat Kelly/Mott (Sidney) by 12s
Time: 8:18
We were ahead coming out of Grassy, but then I had sunglasses issues as they fell off my head and blocked my view. I tried to push them back up again but they fell back down, so I then put them on properly and rowed the rest of the race in near-darkness. One-handed rowing in a pair is not particularly clever. Tom called us a length up at the Plough reach timing posts and we put in a bit of a push to go into Ditton slightly up. Unfortunately, any potential drama of a tense finish was ruined by their bowman's getting stuck in his heel restraints and thus steering Ditton without a rudder. The last 500m served to prove that Jacob is more of a man than me and we wiggled our way over the finish line. (BJ)
Final
Lost to Darby/Davis (Christ's) by 17s
Time: 8:27
We knew that we were up against it, as our oppposition had been proven to be exactly the same speed as Dan and Tom. Tiredness meant we probably rowed a bit more consistently but more slowly than in the earlier races. They were 4s up at the Plough so we knew we had to put in a big push - unfortunately they fancied catching us and put in a much bigger one. On the reach our rowing went to pot and they loomed ominously, but we managed to hold them off by about 3 lengths. If they hadn't hit the bank two strokes from their finish line, it could have been a different story... (BJ)