St Catharine's College Boat Club

On Sunday 20th September, two SCCBC members with more sculling ability than perceived common sense decided to spend a day on the picturesque, if somewhat extensive, River Witham.  The Boston Marathon is a somewhat unique event in British Rowing, a 31 mile (49 km) head race that starts in Lincoln and finishes, as the name suggests, in Boston.  While this can inspire awe, horror, adulation or disgust among the larger rowing community, it does not make for exciting race reports. However, it did serve as a pleasant reminder that there is more to rowing than bumps and other "on-Cam" college races.  Racing in the highly prestigious (*coughs*) Im3 Mixed Doubles, spurred on by lovely weather, thinking thoughts of "How hard can it really be?" and ignoring the fact that we hadn't had a crew outing since June, we overtook many boats, were overtaken once or twice, and finished in a time of 4:16:07.8. With the other competitors in our division over 40 minutes behind us, we collected our trophies and agreed it had been a good day's work.  A memorable experience, and one which I hope future Catz crews will be inspired to recreate.