The Club's Results
Queens' Novice Ergo Competition, Mich Term 2022
Mixed VIIIs (1st division)
| Mixed VIIIs | |||
| bow | George Mears Mears | 2 | Csongor Beke |
| 3 | Philippa Stokes | 4 | Hannah Herbert-Owen |
| 5 | Florence Layburn | 6 | Julia Frieberger |
| 7 | Xander Povey | str | Thomas Frith |
10th overall
Time: 13:36.6
Time: 13:36.6
After a rather autocratic approach to crew selection, we went over and did it, with zero preparation, and straight after an outing for the men.
We entered as the “FaT Absolute Muppets”, inspired by Bomber (though he has mostly moved on to ham sandwiches this term).
I was given (forced into accepting) the privilege of going first. This proved to be a problem as I proved all too happy to maintain 1:20 splits as the allure of remaining in the lead proved to be too strong. I ended pulling 1:35s, which is not quite ideal.
A lack of preparation then plagued us, as not only my changeover to Xander (sorry Xander) but also Csongi’s into George resulted in undesirable delays.
I don’t remember much about the women’s side erging - I was still a little dead, and focused on shouting at them - apart from three of them being really well-paced, maintaining 1:50 or thereabouts the whole way.
Allegedly, I was scary, or “would have been if I didn’t know you” while encouraging them.
Some photographic evidence, somewhere, exists to show Csongi holding 1:15 splits for way too long, completely forgetting how to row in the process. He ended by pulling above 1:40. (Again, the timer running over the changeover makes it hard to compare times, but his 500m section was done in 1:32.1 despite (or because of) his heroic start).
Links
Full Mich Term 2022 Queens' Novice Ergo Competition results
Mixed VIIIs Queens' Novice Ergo Competition results archive
Compare this time with all Queens' Novice Ergo Competition times in the archive
