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Cambridge 99's Regatta, May Term 2010

1st women's VIII (1st division)

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Final
Lost to Murray Edwards
This was a very windy day. I had previously 4 times with M4b, and I'm pretty sure that the towpath side was favoured, and we were on the windy meadow side. Anyway, we started, and promptly went half a length down, in my opinion due to the wind. Then, Murray Edwards crashed into us. To be fair, they had been told by the marshal "Point your boat into the middle of the river", which does perhaps increase the likelihood of a crash. Anyway, by the time we were separated, we were a length and a bit down. The loss of power on bowside also lead to me being in their wake, so I had to steer out of that, leaving us further back. At this point panic settled in. Our stride took us to a spannerish 38, our second stride took us to a spannerish 39, and a third stride finally allowed us to rate 35, still reasonably spannerishly. We then proceeded through a series of boat stopping gusts until we finally crossed the line about 2 1/2 lengths down.

A disappointing result, however, I'm not reading anything into it. The wind was a large factor, and being crashed into was obviously not ideal too. It's a pity we couldn't have had more races, or better conditions to actually have a useful comparison. (Swords)

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