Bumps, Blades, and Bowballs- Cambridge Boatie Chat

You're a star deeds. :smile:

Reply 1582

Deedle

You're a star deeds.

thankyou muchly : )

Reply 1583

Chewwy

17

so like, i just did this massive leg press and every vein in my head nearly exploded.

Reply 1584

Shouldn't you have used your legs then?

Ba-dum-tsh.

Reply 1585

OP

Chewwy

so like, i just did this massive leg press and every vein in my head nearly exploded.

This is the interwebs. Surely you mean "asplode"?

Reply 1586

shunter7634

9

The bribes at Cardinals' this year better be good. I have a huge hangover and less than 4 hours sleep and now have to sit on the towpath for 7 hours. For anyone racing, I should be on the finish most day, so direct your bribes to there!

Reply 1587

OP

shunter7634

The bribes at Cardinals' this year better be good. I have a huge hangover and less than 4 hours sleep and now have to sit on the towpath for 7 hours. For anyone racing, I should be on the finish most day, so direct your bribes to there!

A couple of years ago, the bribe consisted of a coolbag full of fresh fish and chips from Small Fry chippy in Chesterton!- only 5 mins away from the river.

Bribes don't really get any better than that...

Reply 1588

Cardinals was such a laugh - maybe not the race itself, which we lost, but the whole scratch mixed boozed/hungover crew thing. My first time stroking a race which was pretty interesting. Also, quite annoying that the boat was sat better than my actual boat had been all term, and one of our practice starts was a better bit of rowing than I'd probably seen since starting rowing. Gutted.

Reply 1589

shunter7634

9

Cantab

Cardinals was such a laugh - maybe not the race itself, which we lost, but the whole scratch mixed boozed/hungover crew thing. My first time stroking a race which was pretty interesting. Also, quite annoying that the boat was sat better than my actual boat had been all term, and one of our practice starts was a better bit of rowing than I'd probably seen since starting rowing. Gutted.

The crew that beat you went on to win the whole thing. So I guess you were a bit unlucky in your draw!
It was good fun though, although I'm so tired now!

Reply 1590

groovy_moose

1

I feel like i fail at the marshalling cardinals thing, since i had to leave an hour and a bit before the end, and hence gained nothing from the bribes... (Hannah and i by and large having sent them up to the start...) hehe.. oh well...

Well, that's not quite true, i got a donut, a couple of sweets and some chocolate chick things... but nonetheless...

Reply 1591

Deedle

so. much. fun.

And yes, the boat was also more sat than our 'official' boat.

awesomeness. Glad we entered :biggrin:

Reply 1592

OP

Bowloader IV on Saturday! :biggrin:

I do like bowloaders, it's like flying a fighter plane or something.

And then I'm going out rowing afterwards- have to see if I can remember how...

Reply 1593

Scipio90

Just been erging in a gym.

Oh dear. Apart from the questionable technique of other people, it appears that unsecured ergs on a smooth surface like to move, leading to mine being several feet in front of where it started after a 500m piece... (also creating a very weird feeling when trying to connect at the front)

Reply 1594

scarlet ibis

Scipio90

Just been erging in a gym.

Oh dear. Apart from the questionable technique of other people, it appears that unsecured ergs on a smooth surface like to move, leading to mine being several feet in front of where it started after a 500m piece... (also creating a very weird feeling when trying to connect at the front)

yeah, its amazing that gyms allow people to use ergs without proper training. My mum hurt her back really badly, cos she didn't know to use her legs to do most of the work.

Reply 1595

groovy_moose

1

I find watching people on the ergs at the gym at home just painful... (and hilarious) unfortunately i have no one at home to share in the pain/amusement because none of them know how either...

Reply 1596

Scipio90

It wasn't as bad as I'd feared, to be honest, although a comment one of our coaches made once to the lines of "you want your chain to move smoothly like this [ergs], not jerkily like this [takes a couple more strokes]... hmm, I can't actually row badly enough for it to do that" seemed amusing in the light of the guy whose chain almost seemed to be slack by the way it was whipping around on the recovery.

I wonder if they'd let me turn an erg around so that it was facing a wall...

I honestly don't understand how the ergs moving is not a major problem: my erging strength is very bad for a rower, and I doubt it's even average for a fit, strong male who doesn't row, so how come they haven't secured them in place somehow following other people causing this?

Reply 1597

OP

Do other people tend to do 500m pieces at high rates, though? :wink:

http://www.concept2.co.uk/forum/ This can be interesting at times!

Reply 1598