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9th Jun '13	Mays Bumps Updates	by JSB
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Mays Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP. The Mays begin at 1.00pm on Wednesday - the full division (racing) times are as follows: Division Wed-Fri Sat M1 19:45 17:45 W1 19:00 17:00 M2 18:15 16:15 W2 17:30 15:30 M3 16:45 14:45 W3 16:00 14:00 M4 15:15 13:15 W4 14:30 12:30 M5 13:45 11:45 M6/W5 13:00 11:00 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (35 replies...)
24th Feb '13	Lent Bumps Updates	by JSB
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Lents begin at 2.00pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat M1 - 16:40 16:40 16:40 16:40 W1 - 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 M2 16:40 - 15:20 15:20 15:20 W2 16:00 - 14:40 14:40 14:40 M3 15:20 15:20 - 14:00 14:00 W3 14:40 14:40 - 13:20 13:20 M4 14:00 14:00 14:00 - 12:40 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (30 replies...)
9th Jun '12	May Bumps Updates	by PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Wed-Fri Sat Men's 6 13:00 11:00 Men's 5 13:45 11:45 Women's 4 14:30 12:30 Men's 4 15:15 13:15 Women's 3 16:00 14:00 Men's 3 16:45 14:45 Women's 2 17:30 15:30 Men's 2 18:15 16:15 Women's 1 19:00 17:00 Men's 1 19:45 17:45 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (40 replies...)
25th Feb '12	Lent Bumps Updates	by PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Lents begin at 1.20pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat M1 - 16:40 16:40 16:40 16:00 W1 16:40 16:00 16:00 16:00 - M2 16:00 - 15:20 15:20 15:00 W2 15:20 15:20 14:40 14:40 - M3 14:40 14:40 - 14:00 14:00 W3 14:00 14:00 14:00 13:20 - M4 13:20 13:20 13:20 - 13:00 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (46 replies...)
12th Jun '11	May Bumps Updates	by PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Wed-Fri Sat Men's 6 13:00 11:00 Men's 5 13:45 11:45 Women's 4 14:30 12:30 Men's 4 15:15 13:15 Women's 3 16:00 14:00 Men's 3 16:45 14:45 Women's 2 17:30 15:30 Men's 2 18:15 16:15 Women's 1 19:00 17:00 Men's 1 19:45 17:45 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (48 replies...)
26th Feb '11	Lent Bumps Update	by PC
Welcome to FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Lents begin at 2pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat M1 - 16:40 16:40 16:40 16:40 W1 - 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 M2 16:40 - 15:20 15:20 15:20 W2 16:00 - 14:40 14:40 14:40 M3 15:20 15:20 - 14:00 14:00 W3 14:40 14:40 - 13:20 13:20 M4 14:00 14:00 14:00 - 12:40 We hope you enjoy our results service again. Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (42 replies...)
5th Jun '10	May Bumps Updates	by PC
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Wed-Fri Sat Men's 6 13:00 11:00 Men's 5 13:45 11:45 Women's 4 14:30 12:30 Men's 4 15:15 13:15 Women's 3 16:00 14:00 Men's 3 16:45 14:45 Women's 2 17:30 15:30 Men's 2 18:15 16:15 Women's 1 19:00 17:00 Men's 1 19:45 17:45 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (33 replies...)
22nd Feb '10	Lent Bumps Updates	by bjg
Welcome to FirstandThird.org's Lent Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our Lent Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Lents begin at 2pm on Tuesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat M1 - 16:40 16:40 16:40 16:40 W1 - 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 M2 16:40 - 15:20 15:20 15:20 W2 16:00 - 14:40 14:40 14:40 M3 15:20 15:20 - 14:00 14:00 W3 14:40 14:40 - 13:20 13:20 M4 14:00 14:00 14:00 - 12:40 We hope you enjoy our results service again. Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (34 replies...)
7th Jun '09	May Bumps updates	by bjg
Welcome to www.FirstandThird.org's May Bumps coverage. Messages sent from the towpath will be posted below, in addition to which you can find the latest charts on our May Bumps page. These are also available by WAP and SMS. The Mays begin at 1pm on Wednesday - the full division times are as follows: Division Wed-Fri Sat Men's 6 13:00 11:00 Women's 5 13:05 11:05 Men's 5 13:45 11:45 Women's 4 14:30 12:30 Men's 4 15:15 13:15 Women's 3 16:00 14:00 Men's 3 16:45 14:45 Women's 2 17:30 15:30 Men's 2 18:15 16:15 Women's 1 19:00 17:00 Men's 1 19:45 17:45 We hope you enjoy our results service again - and of course BumpIT. Entries for the 4-day game close as the first results roll in, so get guessing! Good luck to all First and Third crews in the bumps! (37 replies...)
25th Jul '09	May term round-up	by FG
In sports, right at the heart of every competition lie the nonnegotiable principles of victory and loss. Whilst victories are pleasant and therefore easy to take, it is the losses that test every athlete's sportsmanship. Emerging from defeats with an ever increasing hunger for improvement requires true determination and power of will. Currently, First and Third are having a stretch of incredible success, but at the same time need to be prepared for tougher times ahead and not let complacency enter into their training. After a lot of hard work and the odd blip, this term and indeed whole year became pleasant, enjoyable and successful. The first men's eight won all major university competitions: Fairbairn's eights and fours, Lent bumps, May bumps and two events in the Small Boats Regatta (Miles Galloway in the Bushe-Fox Freshman Sculls, Tom Coker in the Fairbairn Junior Sculls). First and Third have defended the Lents headship for the third year running, as well as the Mays headship for the second year in a row, the latter having been achieved by First and Third last in 1967 (by the same crew that went on to win the Ladies Plate, marking the last win of a Henley race by a First and Third crew). Off the Cam, First and Third again proved their strength and won a number of head races in their category (formerly Senior 3), notably Kingston Head, Head of the Trent and the Head of the River Race (S3 academic, known as the Halladay Trophy). The latter race was finished at a remarkable position of 53rd overall, the highest an Oxbridge college crew has ranked in many years. Importantly, the club can still carry on improving a long way, both in squad depth as well as in quality of top level rowers. The first men's eight for instance was comfortably beaten by the university men's lightweight crew in both 2k as well as 5k sparring by considerable margins. In the light of the opening statement, we need to take the enthusiasm and joy of our current success and keep them up in training, such that changes in the squad are less damaging. The success First and Third have had this year built on what was started some years ago, and is a result of constant work. Looking ahead, therefore, to subsequent years, it is crucial that despite the current success and strength of the first eight, athletes are constantly being developed to a standard where they can fill in any holes left by those graduating, in either the first eights or the lower boats. It is also important that those athletes who novice in Cambridge are continually being trained up to first eight standard, and are not discouraged by those entering the club with prior rowing experience who might only initially be of a higher standard. The women had a more difficult year ahead but developed well as the year progressed. Owing to the fact that most of their experienced rowers had left Cambridge at the end of last year, the first women's eight contained a large fraction of novice athletes. Despite this seeming a disadvantage, the women did very well by holding an excellent second place in the Lent bumps and losing only to Downing by 0.1s in the Novice category of the Women's Head of the River Race. They also won the Fairbairn's Fours competition and were runner up in the final of the coxed fours at the Uni Fours races, an excellent result as well. In subsequent years, I hope that the women will also work on novice development, as they already have impressively shown this year. It is also great to see a number of First and Third members represent the university boat clubs, namely John Kiely (2 seat in the lightweight blue boat), James Strawson (bow seat in the Goldie crew), Rachel Croft (6 seat in the Blondie crew) and Sasha Kasas (CUBC spare man). Most of them returned to represent First and Third in the May bumps this year (apart from James Strawson whose training commitment with CUBC continued past the Boat Race) and provided input to the strength of their crews. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the rowers, coxes, coaches and members of the committee who have contributed to making First and Third so successful and enjoyable this year. Iain Law has yet again proven his ability to turn crews that look less experienced on paper (such as the Lents W1 with 5 novices) into great successes, and surprisingly manages to stay sane when we present him with countless boat and equipment breakages. Tom Rose and Jonathan Davies have done a fantastic job coaching the upper men's crews, in both motivating the squad and providing valuable coaching. Both personally and on behalf of the whole club, I would like to thank David Jones for his efforts in coaching First and Third crews not only this year, but over many years. He has inspired, motivated and improved generations of particularly second men's eight crews who, for a great number of years, could look forward to David's return the fortnight before Lent and May bumps and coaching in his very own unique style. Many athletes who have been coached by David have expressed their sadness that he shall not be returning to coach First and Third crews, but at the same time wish him all the best for his future retirement from coaching. Peter Summers, Dan Holland, Phil Horler, Jenny Lee, Jon Glass, Neil Talbott, Simon Blackburn and Ming-Chee Chung have all provided excellent coaching for crews of all abilities, men and women, and the club owes great thanks to everyone for their continued support. Great thanks are also owed to Martin Peck, who is doing a fantastic job keeping the website running and providing excellent quality bumps photos, Richard Bullock for his help in pushing off crews in bumps and also making it down for most bumps at least as far as I can remember. Thanks also to Nick Kingsbury and Peter Brandt, both excellent supporters of First and Third naturally, in helping out with their advice and supporting First and Third crews on the bank, and also to Richard Dewire and Dan Darley who are doing a fantastic job in running the First and Third Association. Thanks also to all the bufties who put up First and Third crews for races, in particular Simon Blackburn, Matt Byrne and Erica Thompson, as well as the O'Neill family. Personally, I would also like to thank this year's committee who have done most of the hard work in making the club work. This leaves me to wish next year's committee the best of luck - May luck and good spirits be on their side. To yet another successful year! Ollie Ollie First and Third (which is the '67 style of cheering)! Florian Gruessing Captain 2008-09.

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