This weekend saw the second race
of the year for Roehampton University Rowing Club at an indoor event in Oxford
on Sunday. Men's captain Ben Thompson took on the challenge of driving twelve
excited rowers to the race in a minibus, and despite some tricky manoeuvres and
questionable parking techniques we got there safe and sound with time to spare.
The race was a friendly, three kilometre indoor event using rowing machines.
Four rowers per team break up the distance into 250m relays, taking care to
make the change-overs snappy to get the time as low as possible.
Fuelled
on service station snacks, the girls; Abi, Isabel, Helene and myself, smashed
our category, coming in a whopping twenty seconds faster than second place. The
novice men; Aniket, Alfie, Andrew and Pawel, also won gold, while the senior
men Ben, Josh, Nick and Scott took home a more than respectable silver medal.
After
doing so well in the Quintin Head race last weekend the rowers were over the
moon with another promising achievement, but the winning doesn't end there.
After a jolly drive back to Roehampton with spirits high, we went on to come
third in the Sunday night pub quiz - there's just no stopping the rowing team
this year! Although we may not have actually “taken on Oxford” so to speak
(we're not quite at their level yet...) as Varsity fast approaches it's safe to
say we are looking forward to some University rivalry and winning some more
races.
Natalia Jackson
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