St Catharine's College Boat Club

Rowed-over

Aware of the dangers of being complacent in bumps, we arrived for the last day prepared for a challenge from Newhnam behind us. There was one question large in everyone's minds however. We had rowed over on the first day, suprising everyone, and bumped Pembroke on the second, a crew who on paper 'ought' to have been faster. Then we had bumped Newnham, an even tougher prospect. But could we get Caius?

Unfortunately the answer to that was no. For the first part of the race our attention was occupied by Newnham behind us, who had gained rapidly off the start. They got to within (a generous) two whistles, but again we proved ourselves the tougher crew, forcing them back to a length as their sprint faded. A superior line round Grassy saw them fall away to two lengths, after which we focussed on Caius ahead.

Despite a hard row, we never got within station of them, so it seems we may have reached our level this Lents. We can hold our heads up high with a result of 8th on the river, the highest W1 has been in since 1998.