The Club's Results

Solid race. Absolutely nailed it and were 17s ahead of our competition. Sadly Robinson spoiled our fun by being in the same Mays division as us, but we had a chunky row from start to finish.

In the single, I had rather less luck. As usual I had only a vague idea of where the start was but got onto my pace reasonably quickly, but dreading the head wind on the reach. First Post reach went moderately smoothly as I remembered how to scull, before turning into the corner too early and sharply and taking a few seconds out of my race to drift away from the bank and push back out my bowside blade. I followed this up with an overtake round Grassy in which I accidentally managed to push the poor overtake-ee right out wide. A push onto Plough reach was followed by a poor line round Ditton while overtaking a double (who it has to be said were moving quite incredibly slowly). Events for this race were concluded shortly after by attempting to overtake a mixed pair; Barney on the bank yelled at them to concede the line. When the finally did so I was extremely close and instead drastically altered my line to avoid the collision; a few strokes at pi/4 to the racing line to get round them (who were now going wide themselves) and I was blissfully clear. Rowed to the finish and found I'd lost by 6s...