May Bumps 2013 W1 Day 3

Row over.

After our incredibly early bumps on day 1 and 2 there had been a few whispered mentions of the possibility of blades in the W1 camp, but we knew that in the first division that is a very rare event and so didn't dare get our hopes up too much.

On day three we came up against our toughest challenge yet: Queens W1. We have a lot of history with Queens from Lent bumps, and from races earlier in the term we knew that we were fairly equal. We did not have the best start and it took us a while to get up to our full race speed which gave Queens the advantage from the start. We stayed on station with Queens for pretty much the whole race until the reach when a series of immense builds saw us eat into their lead, but it was too late to get close enough to bump. We ended up with a good strong row over as did both Queens and Trinity Hall around us so well done to them too :)

On day four we will have another go at getting Queens and we know where we can improve on our race from yesterday. We may not be pushing for blades, but we are edging ever closer to the top 10 of the first division. Whatever happens we will aim to row home knowing that we raced as well as we possibly could to make the wheel proud. Bring on Day 4!