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May Bumps 2023

2nd women's VIII, W2 and Friends

Crew list for 2 races:

2nd women's VIII, W2 and Friends
in Amanda
bow Maraia Pickering 2 Phoebe Hall
3 Kate South 4 Hajna Williams
5 Rosie Baish 6 Weishi Chen
7 Lily Kearney str Zara Bek

Coxed by: Emily Man

Crew list for 1 race:

Coxed by: Emily Man

Crew list for 1 race:

Coxed by: Emily Man

Wednesday
Bumped by Clare IV
A classic div 4 race. 
We went off with great gusto and immediately rushed. The boat slammed down to strokeside and a crab ensued. 
We recovered said crab, and got to just over a length on Caius IV. 
We had not however fixed either the rushing or the sit of the boat and so promptly caught 2 more crabs. 
The boat slowed almost to a standstill with only 4 rowing. 
We attempted to hold Clare off long enough for Peterhouse to catch them but didn’t succeed. 
A thud was heard as Clare’s blade scratched the beautiful unblemished stern of Amanda. We’re sorry, will get them back tomorrow!

We’d also like to apologies to Peterhouse II, who we're on excellent terms with. Or at least we were until we utterly screwed both their blades campaign and our own in the space of 1 minute.

No one’s fault in particular, we all got over enthusiastic and promptly had a seafood salad full of crabs, lobsters and anything else we're calling them this week. 
(Rosie)
Thursday
Bumped Clare IV
Revenge!!

As we did our practice start under the railway bridge we were unsat and rushed (theme here) and my outside shoulder went pop. 
Our standing start at the plough was way better, if painful. 

There was a consultation with Bomber and Alex at the lock, and we decided I should race at reduced power, and not tell the rest of the crew I was injured until after the race. 

We went out hard, knowing we had a rapid and angry Peterhouse behind us. 
The race itself was uneventful, we put down power and didn’t rush. 
It was nice, technical, fast, and we bumped Clare without any real risk from Peterhouse behind. 

I immediately jumped out of the boat and informed Patrick that my shoulder was ****ed, and he was rowing home. 
He claimed he couldn’t row bowside, and hadn’t rowed in a year. 
He was told to get in a boat and deal with it, which he duly did. 
He rowed very well, and I cycled home on his mega expensive triathlon bike. 

On the way home Grace (a friend of W2) managed to lose the front wheel off her bike at Grassy, causing hilarity as she yelled “Rosie!! Help” while holding half a bike. 
We fixed that and headed home, good day all round!
(Rosie)
Friday
Bumped Caius IV
My shoulder went pop (again) during the warm up, which didn’t bode well. 

Practice starts were uneventful and pain free, but I was worried for the race. 
I rowed this one at about 80% power, on the grounds that we were safe from Clare behind. When doing this calculation I forgot that there was a spooning Catz in front of Caius which could have scuppered us. 
However we got within a whistle fairly quickly, got to 2 whistles by the middle of first post reach.

At this point it was my longest ever bumps race and I decided that I was bored of being at 80% power. The fact that I almost crabbed round the backend because I wasn’t finishing properly was connected. 
I therefore resolved to go to full power, shoulders be damned. 
Caius then died in front of us, and we got 3 whistles and a bump before first post. 

Apparently Caius got to 3 whistles on Catz, which was way too close for comfort. Catz were very greatful for us saving them from blades, then realised we were chasing them on Saturday and were less happy. 
We pulled 2 1/2 lengths on them between station 13 and station 1 which bodes well. 

On grounds that my shoulder was still in pieces, we managed to coerce Cat from Newnham into the boat to row home!
(Rosie)
Saturday
Bumped St. Catharine's III
Given that we’d done the decent thing and saved Catz from spoons on Friday we hoped they do the decent thing and let us bump them easily. 
Catz on the other hand had already bumped our M1, M2 and W1 this week and decided to finish off by getting away from us. 
Catz had a spooning Kings in front of them. We had a chat with their coach (Emily, a friend of mine) beforehand and said that if they could get to first post then we’d bump Catz and save their stern. They said they were aiming for a fly and die to Grassy. 

And so the plan was formed:
Kings would fly their way to at least 1st post. 
We would go all out for Catz. 
Catz would hopefully do us the courtesy of just giving us the bump. 
They didn’t. 

Catz pushed us the hardest of anyone this week. 
We got to “just inside station” and then stayed there for a while. 
This was a new call for W2, every other day we went straight to whistles. 
We kept pushing and got to 1 whistle, then 2. We stayed at 2 for an age then finally we got 3. 
The rate at this point was somewhere around 40. 
We’d wound to 38 of the start, and then somehow gone up-2 at our rhythm call rather than down. 
And so our seafood themed Achilles heel struck again - a crab occurred severe enough to de-seat the rower in question. 
Between her and the girl behind, the crab was recovered and we didn’t really drop back, she was managing to sit the boat. Lack of a seat prevented much rowing, so the remaining 7 pressed on with everything we had. 
Definitely the hardest I’ve pushed in ages - more so than my PB 2k. 
The last time my legs were this sore was BPBC Fairbairns in 2021 when we died 1km in and found out the hard way quite how long that course is!

Back to bumps, we swept around 1st post corner in 7s, fortunately with a missing bowsider making the corner doable. 
We got continuous whistles mid corner and got the bump on the exit, pulling into the bank. 

I scrambled half way down the boat to hug the crabee who was distraught, before depositing myself on the bank and saying something about shoulders hurting. 

In lieu of any subs, Zara and I swapped seats and so I stroked the boat home, my injury being on the inside which was fine.
During the row home we did a bit of a burst for ‘fun’, mostly because I was in the stroke seat and wanted to!

I’m not sure what foliage I was given but it didn’t agree with me. I got water in my eyes and rubbed them, only for the stinging to get an order of magnitude worse as I rubbed what I can only assume was some form of mild allergic reaction into both eyes. 
We got back to the boathouse rapidly (26 strokes from the bridge with a standing start) and I collapsed onto the ground and started attempting to wash my eyes out. 
This failed so I found a friendly Vet who did it for me, apparently using the technique normally reserved for large dogs… (Thanks Niamh, and well done on blades!)

The boat was put away with only a small water fight, and we all departed happy with our weeks efforts. 

A big thanks to Bomber, Alex, Rebecca, Thomas, Luke and Jos for their hard work coaching us!

A final addenda post BCD - we went to the Locker cafe for breakfast pre race at Polly's request. They serve a very nice pancakes with almond flakes, but assured me they could do it sans almond for allergy reasons. 
Given how horrifically ill I feel today, I suspect that they did not do it sans almond. Oops.

(Rosie)

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