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
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 ;) (Harriet)
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! (Mark)
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Selected Results

College men's VIIIs

Pos  Club         Crew  Cat    (Est.)  Time  Diff  Prize
 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

College women's VIIIs

Pos  Club         Crew  Cat    (Est.)  Time  Diff  Prize
 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
 5   1st and 3rd  W1    Upper  (6:45)  6:29 -0:16
 6   Jesus        W2    Lower  (7:00)  6:42 -0:18  1st
 7   Christs      W2    Lower  (7:01)  7:28  0:27

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