St Catharine's College Boat Club

The drama continued for W1 on day 3!

We set off for our re-row with Queens feeling pretty confident that we could get them and planned on doing it quickly. We set off strongly, but at no point did we really make a move on Queens. We got one whistle, but for some reason, maybe the lack of normal bumps adrenaline, we just did not take up the rate or the pressure. By the end of the reach Queens were a couple of lengths ahead and we rowed over yet again. This was gutting after being so close to getting them the day before. 

We went back to the boathouse, ate, talked, and tried to get warm, and set off for our normal race in divison 1. This time we were NOT going to let them get away from us again! We pushed off strongly from the start and lengthened the distance between us and LMBC significantly. We got our first whistle on Queens, and this time we really made a move! We were seeing red and the whole crew were putting it down together for the first time this week. At two whistles we took the rate up again, and at three whistles we took it up again even when none of us thought we could take it up any more. 

Around Ditton LMBC really came on to us strongly, and even had a bit of overlap. However, we then got continuous whistles on Queens and we steamed away from LMBC to put clear water between us again. We began to overlap with Queens to the point where both boats were basically side by side. Credit to them, the Queens girls are extremely mentally strong, and they yet again pushed away from us. Short of slamming into them there was little more we could have done. We rowed over for the second time in one day, and the fourth time in three days!

Tomorrow the grudge match with Queens continues. W1 should be extremely proud of how they rowed today. We raced 4k in total and learned from the morning's disappointment to make this afternoon an epic row.

Bring on tomorrow!