The Club's Results
Cambridge Head-2-Head, May Term 2010
3rd men's VIII (May's 3rd)
3rd men's VIII | |||
in Black Prince | |||
bow | Jack Shotton | 2 | Yimin Ge |
3 | Joe Barker | 4 | Alexey Morgunov |
5 | Simon Smart | 6 | Dale Swartz |
7 | Preeyan Parmar | str | Charles Vial |
Coxed by: Alex Caulfield
10th out of 11
Time: 15:20
Time: 15:20
The legendary FaT washing machine has returned.
We had two objectives for this race: to find a good rhythm and to overtake the slow women's crew in front of us. We managed only the former. We feel a little emasculated, but in the long run it's better than the other way around.
After a shaky start involving blind panic from the 7 man and a couple of blade mishaps, we managed to settle into a calm 28 on the down leg, pushed out powerfully to 29 through the corners.
Buoyed with confidence by the fact no-one had died yet, we rowed the up leg much faster. Although the bowman had lacerated his leg and during the interval I accidentally knelt in some nettles while discussing extraction, there were fewer moments of blind panic from the 7 man and fewer blade mishaps.
This is not an amazing result. But it spurs us on to train hard.
We had two objectives for this race: to find a good rhythm and to overtake the slow women's crew in front of us. We managed only the former. We feel a little emasculated, but in the long run it's better than the other way around.
After a shaky start involving blind panic from the 7 man and a couple of blade mishaps, we managed to settle into a calm 28 on the down leg, pushed out powerfully to 29 through the corners.
Buoyed with confidence by the fact no-one had died yet, we rowed the up leg much faster. Although the bowman had lacerated his leg and during the interval I accidentally knelt in some nettles while discussing extraction, there were fewer moments of blind panic from the 7 man and fewer blade mishaps.
This is not an amazing result. But it spurs us on to train hard.
Links
Full May Term 2010 3rd men's VIII results
Cambridge Head-2-Head 3rd men's VIII results archive
Compare this time with all Cambridge Head-2-Head times in the archive