St Catharine's College Boat Club

Winter Head is the last head race before Fairbairns! We approached this race as a practice for sustaining a high rate for a longer period of time, and as a chance to show the other crews how far we had progressed since Autumn Head.

For the first half of the race we managed to sustain a much higher rate than we had previously been able to maintain, and started to gain ground on Caius ahead of us. After an incredible reset at the top of the reach led by our stroke, Sarah, we did let the rating drop a bit down the second half of the reach. After hearing our famous fan club cheering us on from the bank we got it together again and powered it home. 

At the end of the day we came 5th out of 10 Cambridge Women's IVs, and narrowly missed out on a cash prize. This is a definite improvement from Autumn Head, and we know where we could have made up some time. 

Credit must go to our novice cox, Beth, as this was her first ever race. She successfully navigated all the corners and kept us entertained for the entire 11.35mins of the race!