Kingston Head was a bit of a fail, we were clearly the least experienced in our category, coming across those ever so innocent looking but sneakily experienced school boat clubs (I think we unfortunately were competing against their sixth form, probably had been rowing for some years) and a boat of women aged around 20-30 from a club who are reknowned for having won Kingston head for the past three years. One of the girls in our boat had a chest infection and started having difficulty breathing half way through, we were using terrible blades causing us all to slice our hands to ribbons and get cramp. But at least we only got taken over by one boat (the school boat) and managed to complete the race.