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Another Michaelmas on the River
October hails the end of the vacation and the start of term once again. A year older, a year wiser but somehow you find yourself back in a boat. Alien at first, it starts to flow back to you. Painfully, the summer fitness plan was not as regimented as the captain would have liked. But…
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Christ Church Regatta 2009
With Christ Church Regatta both commencing and finishing on Wednesday, the entire boat club had plenty of time to prepare ourselves for a hard night of celebrating rowing at St. Peter’s. We might not have had the chance to prove to the rest of Oxford just how proficient the St. Peter’s novices have become with…
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As Race Day Draws Near…
The ergs are turning, the starts are finally getting there, someone is dusting off True Blue ready for the race-day-eve ritual screening; the Boat Club is getting ready to do what it does best: putting good crews into Oxford regattas in short order. If you’re in Oxford (be you student, alumnus or friend), do please…
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Confessions of a Novice Cox
I started rowing as a novice in Michaelmas 2008 and quickly developed a passion for all things rowing related. Inspired by Christ Church Regatta success I moved up the ranks to rowing in the mens first eight in Trinity term. This term I decided to have a go at coxing. I assumed that coxing would…
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