The Club's Results

It was a good race overall. We did exactly what Bomber asked us to do: we enjoyed racing. We held a strong 34.5 rhythm throughout, and on the rare occasions when splits or rate dropped, we responded promptly to Connor's excellent calls.

Coming 3rd is our best result in Fairbairns since COVID-19, and we’re very pleased with it. That said, being just 1.8 seconds behind Jesus is slightly annoying—especially since we caught up with Fitz M1 despite a time gap. Unfortunately, they didn’t concede the racing line through First Post Reach, so we’ll never know if we could have been faster than Jesus or not (we like to think we could have). We have Fitz in front of us in Mays, so this was at least a good practice for bumping them.

The whole crew ends the term on a high, excited to have our injured and novice rowers racing with us in Lents.

Thanks to everyone who came down to the river to watch—it was incredibly encouraging to hear 'Yeah FaT!' echoing all the way from Goldie to Grassy Corner.