Ten brave souls with eight boats ventured off for a full day's racing on the Cam. It was a relatively warm and thankfully calm day; there had been a stiff head wind at the first leg in January which had made racing a bit more challenging!
The junior members showed the way. Here are a few highlights:
Division 2 (10:40)
Clio continues to impress in the WJ 1x class. Clio was the fastest female junior on the day and third fastest women's single! Clio is now within 9 seconds of the overall J 1x leader.
Em and Francesca entered in a J16 2x. Francesca has only been rowing a few months and it was her first experience in a competitive race. Under Em's steady helm they completed the course in just over 14mins, chased down the river by Terry and a posse of spectators on push bikes. A fantastic result.
The gentlemen's Vet E4+ (John, David, Neil and Nick) put in a solid performance and improved on their time in the first leg.
Lastly, the old Vet Cs - Tim and I - plugged it out in the singles. I am trying to remember how Tim described my stroke in the bar afterwards... "physical but effective"? Which I think is another way of saying that it lacks refinement! I actually had one of my best results to date, clocking up the fastest Vet C 1x time of the day!
Division 4 (14:00)
Chris Lawrence entered his first competitive race (J16 1x) and Terry said that he got faster and faster as he travelled down the river! He led a few of us more experienced rowers home!
For a full set of results see:
http://www.cra-online.net/results/2009/wl_results.htm
It was a great day and I am sure most of us will be back for the final round on the 8th March. Why don't you join us?!
Malcolm Pidd
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
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