Tag: michaelmas
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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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Update: Men’s Seniors
Men’s Seniors The traditional bad luck of Michaelmas rowing has somewhat plagued our first squad this term, whether it has been illness in the boat or our poor launch “Gilly” choosing to selfishly die on us just as we pushed off at Radley last weekend. However, a solid core has stayed strong in the boat,…
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Update: SPCWBC
Women’s Novices The women’s novices have been coming along in leaps and bounds this week – the improvement has been outstanding and as we start to fix them into crews we can see them really working together. This morning Francis asked me why I was in such a good mood, that I normally wasn’t like…
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Novices in the mist…
Novice training for Christ Church regatta started with a bang this weekend, when we held our first ever Freshers’ Week BBQ at the Boathouse. We had an excellent turnout and managed to get far more boats than we could have imagined out on the water for a taste of Oxford rowing. The river was busy,…
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And so it begins…
This weekend saw a fresh crop of St. Peter’s rowers make their way down to the boat house for the first time. Upon arrival they were shown the basics of the rowing stroke, learnt the difference between “bowside” and “strokeside”, and pushed off to make a splash on the Isis. Their safe arrival back at…
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