Bumps, Blades, and Bowballs- Cambridge Boatie Chat

OP

Coxing a bowloader for the first time in two hours. Great! :biggrin:

Reply 542

Taiping

Got locked out of the boathouse after doing a 10k erg (42:07.6@2:06.4) and had to wait for the first boat to come back.

40 minutes of time wasting by using oars as pikes and scull blades as spears.

What fun!

Reply 543

OP

Yup, bowloaders are fun. Rate 45 (off the wind, down to cruise at 40 :eek:

) when you've nothing between you and the view ahead but the coxbox screen and a view of the bow canvas and bowball is great. Plus the guys are a great laugh and I might get to cox them in the City Sprints (side-by-side racing outside the boathouses!) on Sunday. Woo!

Reply 544

Hmmmm...just got back from the CUCBC-LMBC Erg Champs. Would any Trinitarian be able to enlighten me as to how many of 'FaT II' are actually rowing for First and Third in the Second Mays boat? :smile:

Reply 545

Anonystude

Looking at the crew list on the FaT website -- most of them: it just happens that one of them is a Blues rugby player(!). None are from the regular first boat, as far as I can tell; five were 2nd VIII for Lents, two were 3rd.

Reply 546

YAY! I won something for the first time EVER! :smile:

Reply 547

OP

Head to Head?

I'm quite annoyed about Bedford; for some reason we were entered as S4 rather than Novice and so were against two Oxford (Hertford and Univ) college's first boats, who beat us convincingly by 5 and 6 lengths. So we only got to race twice in total. It was quite useful (I do need to watch my mouth when racing that openly in public, though!) but it would have been nice to have gone agaisnt crews we had a hope of beating. Head to head was good fun and we did reasonably well (Simoco M1, or at least 5/8ths of it) and the CIty Sprints was fun also (Hornets Vet E 8+) where we lost in the final by a length (having crashed (not my fault)) to the Cambridge Veterens boat.

And then the fun of the coxing talk (which was OK but could have been more useful from my PoV) and then a good laugh in the pub afterwards.

A great weekend, but now I've got to go back to revision- bleurch! :frown:

Reply 548

Taiping

What was happening yesterday? There were loads of kids on the river when I was doing my 2k test.

Reply 549

OP

City Sprints race- a side-by-side sprint race over 400m, starting under Cutter Ferry bridge from stakeboats, and racing until opposite City boathouse. Quite exciting because it's an interesting course to steer!

Reply 550

Taiping

FadeToBlackout

City Sprints race- a side-by-side sprint race over 400m, starting under Cutter Ferry bridge from stakeboats, and racing until opposite City boathouse. Quite exciting because it's an interesting course to steer!

Side by side on the Cam? That must have been interesting...

Reply 551

FadeToBlackout

Head to Head?

Yep, we won M2 and were third overall (beat FaT by 1s :smile:

).

We were, however, convincingly beaten by King's M1 (ahead of us in Bumps).

Reply 552

OP

Ditting Suck

Yep, we won M2 and were third overall (beat FaT by 1s :smile:

).

We were, however, convincingly beaten by King's M1 (ahead of us in Bumps).

Reply 553

Helenia

20

GAH! It is May. It is supposed to be sunny. I deliberately didn't row in winter for a reason. I therefore do not appreciate rowing in the rain now. :mad:

Reply 554

Willa

11

I lost my heart rate monitor this week!!! It has to have fallen out of my bag somewhere, grrrr...I'm really annoyed I've lost it! At least if I have to buy a replacement they are cheaper over here!

Reply 555

I've been thinking about buying a heart rate monitor. Any advice on brand/model Willa...?

Reply 556

tll5ku0lvz

2

I'm not Willa but get a Suunto, solely on the basis that the PM4s have built-in interfaces (for the coded ones I think). I had to shell out another £30 to get an interface for my Polar HRM.

Reply 557

Willa

11

I didnt know that the PM4's had a suunto interface, but even so, I would still recommend the Polar HRM's. They are by far the best ones around, never had a problem with them (although I can't remember what make my previous one was...it was crap though). The transmitters (T-31) are nice and thin so don't get in the way when erging. And I can cope with wearing a watch.

And yes I have definitely lost my transmitter. Gonna have to fork out over $40 for another one....grrr!

Reply 558

Willa

11

ARGHHH!!!

I just ordered a new polar heart rate transmitter an hour ago, went to do some laundry, and found my transmitter at the bottom of the basket! I called the company and they said the product is already shipping, so i can't get a refund unless I wait for it to arrive and then just send it straight back!

Does anyone want a polar heart rate monitor? I can sell it cheap, £20! (only problem is it's just the transmitter, no receiver!)

Reply 559

OP