The Club's Results
Maiden Sculls, May Term 2014
JPA in a single scull (Women's)
| Single sculls | |||
| in Eel | |||
| Julia Attwood | |||
Semi finals
Lost to Littlewood (Caius) by 1.5 lengths
Lost to Littlewood (Caius) by 1.5 lengths
Scratches and high winds caused chaos and confusion on the start, but once we had all agreed on who we were racing and which way, I managed to line up reasonably and not capsize when I came forward. I hadn't practiced many starts in a tailwind, and this showed as I got off to a rocky start. Pumping with the adrenaline of my first sculling race was disconcerting and I made a decision to adopt a slow and steady course to try and get my technique back on track, and then wind up the rate in the latter half.
The reach never seems quite big enough, and I wasted a fair bit of time and energy between shaky strokes rowing much too far in one direction or another, ending up on the wrong station. Luckily my opposition was far enough ahead at this point that it didn't make much difference whose water was whose.
A late crab by Littlewood gave me some hope that I might be able to come back late in the race, but I only managed to shorten, rather than overcome the gap. As Fordy put it "You were taking more effective strokes, but she was taking a lot more of them." I guess I have my answer now to the age-old rate vs power debate.
Plate final
Beat Watts by half the course
Beat Watts by half the course
The wind had picked up significantly by the time we had organized ourselves, and combined with rowing against the stream, this race was much slower than the last.
I had a significant weight advantage over my opposition in the headwind, and once I was a few lengths up adopted a very conservative race plan of trying to get my catches in, not crab and not capsize. Fordy attempted to call a wind for the finish, but this was met with disapproval.
Links
Full May Term 2014 Maiden Sculls results
Single sculls Maiden Sculls results archive
