St Catharine's College Boat Club

This year's Lents M1 is somewhat under-strength, as we are missing Dave Allwood to injury and Harry Moss to unavoidable academic commitments. Nevertheless, we started the week confident of finally regaining the first division spot that was lost in my first year at Catz.

The first three crews bunched up a bit off the start, with us taking half a length off Churchill and Selwyn coming about half a length closer behind us. These relative positions stayed pretty much the same through First Post and Grassy corners, before we started grinding Churchill down on Plough Reach. Overlap came shortly after Ditton corner and, after Churchill had delayed the inevitable by some evasive steering, we bumped out just before the Railings.

All in all, it was a good first race for the four of our crew who had never competed in Bumps before, and a good start to the week for all Catz crews. May there be many more like it!