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Chewwy

did the sculler have ginger hair?

No, it was someone else from Christ's. (not to imply that we have no ginger people)

Went out today with the men's first novice boat as a sub: was really fun.

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Deedle

w00t for Queen's later on : )

...I probably won't be saying this later.

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Scipio90

Deedle

w00t for Queen's later on : )

...I probably won't be saying this later.

Same here.

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Scipio90

Woo. Beat my personal best, and we came 2nd in our race and 12th in the division.

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Deedle

I beat mine too : ) by about 15s methinks... Not sure where we came overall tho' - when do you reckon the results will be up?

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lavalse

yayyy the homerton W1 team are now 2nd after Jesus!! we're normally quite terrible, but look at us now :biggrin:

Reply 1026

Chiron

Rainfaery

To continue asking annoying questions, I suppose:

Can a person both row and cox? That's what I generally do at my home club. This season I've been mostly coxing the senior boats, and rowing down with the novices. Next season I think it would be a more even split between rowing and coxing the senior boats, though. Would I be able to do this at Cambridge?

It's possible, but difficult. This term I'm both rowing and coxing. This is partly possible because I'm the Men's Vice Captain (equivalent to LBC at most clubs) and thus have a large degree of say in when the boats go out. I was going to be doing more novice coaching but I've cut down on that in order to make time to cox and row.

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visesh

lavalse

yayyy the homerton W1 team are now 2nd after Jesus!! we're normally quite terrible, but look at us now :biggrin:

Oooh, you might (nay, will) know one of my best friends. We drove a car to mongolia this summer :biggrin:

(he's one of the LBCs this year)

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Chewwy

lavalse

yayyy the homerton W1 team are now 2nd after Jesus!! we're normally quite terrible, but look at us now :biggrin:

what are you talking about? novice boats?

edit: just looked at the results of queens ergs, caius guy did win. i see they're still failing to get the race orders right though (like they did last year), so the name on the website doesn't correspond to the person in real life...

edit edit: LOL. just noticed that the HR lady at the UBS assessment centre i went to the other day raced in the sponsors race.

anyway, in other rowing news, we discovered today that our bow 4 is 4 seconds slower over 500m than our stern four. considering how well the stern 4 are doing in uni fours (they're the quickest boat so far...), this is encouraging. well, except for the fact that we have no stamina.

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Scipio90

Yay, I am now stroking my boat. At this rate of sternwards progression, I'll be swimming in front in a week or two.

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lavalse

ok i shouldnt have invaded this thread, i dont actually row, im just friends with boaties and was proud of their achievements :biggrin:

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Chewwy

lavalse

ok i shouldnt have invaded this thread, i dont actually row, im just friends with boaties and was proud of their achievements :biggrin:

according to the queens site they came third... or in your intellectual snobbery are you not counting ARU? :smile:

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Apagg

Meh, no point counting a university in a competition with colleges, ARU should be ashamed if they don't win

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lavalse

lol well i was only quoting what my friends told me, didnt realise about ARU. but apagg has a point, its pretty crazy that they compete with colleges as they are a whole uni playing small colleges. they should race the cambridge blues team and then that would be fair