The Club's Results

For the rowers, this is a classically gruelling double race. 
For our coxes, this was worse. This was raced as a seat-race between Connor and Kian, with them swapping between M1 and M2 in-between each leg.

We start with Kian, and we have a fairly pleasant race down, with a nice attempt at building into the finish. Some interesting pre-race lines are mitigated by much more classical lines during the race.

In the break, Xander and I both explore possibilities of copying Trinity Hall W1 (those of the legendary 4x public urination fine in one day).

Connor arrives, and we're ready to go again, but it's clear that we're a little exhausted. Connor is uncharacteristically quiet during the race (still more than adequately loud, but no legendary calls a la Winter Head race 2). Our splits are slow, and there's a distinct lack of response to calls for more.

We didn't go as much slower on the way back as we had thought, but definitely much slower than we'd have preferred.

Onto Bedford. (Thomas Frith)

Our first race of term where we rowed all 8 for the entire race. In our first leg, we had tight side by side racing between the plough reach and first post corner whilst trying to overtake the XPRESS boat. Eventually we overtook whilst coming out of first post corner. Thank you Connor for the line around Grassy. Not every day do you have two boats going side by side and we had the outer line.  (Krisztian Hunter)

Perhaps a controversial take but there should be more races where you race one direction, spin, then race back. A really solid race with lots of determination and effort coming from the crew, a good sign for W1's bumps campaign given that 6/8 of the crew were from W1 and the boat will go faster with the full crew. (Zara Bek)