St Catharine's College Boat Club

Ah Hubris… what a time to strike. You wouldn’t have thought a crew down two could get a little over confident but that’s where you’d be wrong. Buoyed up buy a fierce effort against Clare, and in the knowledge that Kings weren’t as fast we let the temptress known as ‘we can row over’ lull us into changing both the plan and our ‘find the red line and sit your ass on it’ attitude.

So despite a strong row up, and solid practice start when the fateful canon went we left just a little in reserve each stroke, I mean we had 2.6K to power through, no point getting tired now, right? Wrong, Kings started uncharacteristically fast and caught us with our pants down and our heads in the wrong 500m of the course.

We were bumped disappointingly before grassy corner and that was the end of it. Back at the rowing cave a firm resolve settled upon the crew, new names (of varying wit and historical context) were thrown about for the boat, and Saturday is so very on.