The Club's Results
Lent Bumps 2026
1st men's VIII
| 1st men's VIII | |||
| in Black Prince | |||
| bow | George Howard | 2 | Andrew Farquharson |
| 3 | Sam Pearson | 4 | Emile Hantrais-Smith |
| 5 | Isaac Brown | 6 | Jeremy Gundle |
| 7 | Daniel Edwards-Medic | str | Csongor Beke |
Coxed by: George Moger-Taylor
Coached by:
Steve Harris
Wednesday
Bumped Peterhouse
Bumped Peterhouse
First day, glad to get our first bump!
Sam Pearson needs to learn to hold it up😆.
Unfortunately as we bumped the chaos was just beginning. I royally fucked up holding it up and get flattened by my blade. Andrew and I attempted to twist it out of the water but it was well and truly stuck. The first thing to give was my gate, my blade popping out of it and almost ending up in the river. As the other 7 rowers were instructed to row on, I was left attempting to balance my blade across the centre of the boat.
Oh well. Roll on day 2!
A quivering stomach...
The crack of the gun...
And we were off...
The first two strokes weren't great... a little lacking in patience. Queens began to look a little closer than we expected..
The wind wasn't great, as Csongi and I went a little too high an the rate and not quite enough on time around the back of the stroke, and the rate creps up to a whopping 43 through the motorway bridge. Then a settle to 38, clinical and power starts to really be applied to the water.
George has to call us down to our race rythm of 36 not once but twice, and the second in no uncertain terms as we storm through well beyond the outlet. Queens give a hopeful first whistle, but theor move is unquestionably checked.
And coming into first post it becomes very clear that the crews around us start to flag. And we weren't, we really weren't.
Bomber gave us a hopeful second whistle coming in to the First Post.
And then Bomber was gone... According to him, Zara tried to trip him up by falling off a bike on the corner. And we went all the way from 2 lengths in Forst Post to overlap before he caught back up.
We hit them hard, with the last few strokes gaining more than a foot with every stroke. And with their stroke seat crabbing, we slammed into their rigger with such force as to leave a sad crack in our pristine bows, now smeared with much blue and white paint.
The row home was great as well (ehh Caius, paddling below 1:50 upstream didn't save you from us treating you like morning traffic and pause paddling behind you did it?)
Thursday
Bumped St Catharine's
Bumped St Catharine's
A much better start today, nearly instantly getting a whistle.
It felt great to have a "W2 style" race.
After an excellent and well needed pep talk from Bomber, we rowed much better and with a proper mentality about us. Still room to improve but glimpses of a serious crew.
A very happy crew...
Bomber made it abundantly clear that Wed was not good rowing - it was get the job done rowing.
Thursday was good rowing (though still much to improve). Our settle to cruising pace was about the same as our peak speed on Wed, so getting much faster.
Excellent start, had 1 whistle before the motorway bridge and pushed right into them by first post corner! Going to have to rethink my advice to people of where to watch for Sat...
Bomber made it abundantly clear that Wed was not good rowing - it was get the job done rowing.
Thursday was good rowing (though still much to improve). Our settle to cruising pace was about the same as our peak speed on Wed, so getting much faster.
Excellent start, had 1 whistle before the motorway bridge and pushed right into them by first post corner! Going to have to rethink my advice to people of where to watch for Sat...
'Is that Andrew in 2?! He didn't used to row like that??' - anon mother.
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Full Lent Term 2026 1st men's VIII results
Lent Bumps 1st men's VIII results archive
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