Bumps, Blades, and Bowballs- Cambridge Boatie Chat

Argh, our stash STILL isn't here, we've got our first (properly) senior race on Saturday and 3/4 of the boat will be rowing without stash. Gaaay.

In other news, I'm at the stage of lowering myself into chairs and walking down the stairs backwards, circuits have destroyed me. I've also got an outing on Thursday morning, meeting at the boathouse at 6.30, with a drinking society swap on Wedneday night. A bottle of wine + 6-8 pints + shots + 6.30am rowing = oh dear.

Okay so the problem with the lack of stash for Saturday's race has been solved, helpfully by us not being entered into the race by mistake...***** sake.

you do know it's not too late to enter?

How late can late entry be? I think its our secretary just making a mess of things, we were accidentally left out of a race last term as well.

Quick question to anyone who might know - if you row for a city club, does that exclude you from rowing with a college? Apparently one of our W2 women has been doing outings with 99s, without telling anyone (she's also tried to form a merged crew with Girton, and now wants to row for Clare, because she want to row bumps. Which would leave us with three women for a W2 IV boat...)

I actually know who this person is from speaking with her personally. Officially no, but apparently Peterhouse club captain is going to bar her anyway. To be honest I think he's been quite harsh on her, she obviously really, really loves rowing and basically denied her what would be her last opportunity to row bumps.

does anyone have a race order for newnham short course?

I emailed you Chewwy - hope that's what you wanted.

And as far as the course goes, Galatea, I think it's rowed from the little stone bridge thing, by the motor way, down to the railings (which i think are half way doen the reach, but i'm not so good with matching up the names of stuffon the river to actual places, so someone correct me ifi'm worng)... it think. It's 1600m so not too bad really.

everyone looking forward to newnham short course on saturday? What actually is the course - I've heard its inbetween the railway bridge and the motorway, but is it downstream or upstream?

I'm kind of dreading it - I'm coxing a crew that noviced last term; there are a lot of tight corners on the course, and I find steering in that bit difficult. I just know we're going to be overtaken at the most narrow point of the river, with barges everywhere, it's sod's law - we're bound to crash the thing. And of course, if a crew does badly in a race, it's always the cox's fault.

everyone looking forward to newnham short course on saturday? What actually is the course - I've heard its inbetween the railway bridge and the motorway, but is it downstream or upstream?

I'm kind of dreading it - I'm coxing a crew that noviced last term; there are a lot of tight corners on the course, and I find steering in that bit difficult. I just know we're going to be overtaken at the most narrow point of the river, with barges everywhere, it's sod's law - we're bound to crash the thing. And of course, if a crew does badly in a race, it's always the cox's fault.

lol, are you corpus M2? i just sent an email to my crew (before reading your post), talking about the eventuality of us overtaking you. we may decide to leave a slightly longer pause before going off, since we want to set a good time.