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Boat Race competition – and the winner is…
I am delighted to announce that the winner of my BNY Mellon Boat Race Which Blue Are You? competition to win a dark blue or light blue scarf is … (*drum roll*) … Cambridge supporter, Lydia (aka...
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Advice on rowing the Tideway – Girl on the River needs your help
Girl on the River rocks the Rock the Boat Vets’ Head t-shirt So this weekend it’s finally happening: I shall be rowing the Tideway for the first time, at the Vesta Vets’ Head – four long miles of the...
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The Vesta Vets’ Head
The veteran’s toolkit The smell of Deep Heat is filling the air, and up and down the country men and women of a certain age are popping ibuprofen like it’s going out of style. This can mean only one...
View ArticleThe Boat Race 2014 – what happened to Cambridge?
For non-rowers watching this year’s Boat Race, I imagine it’s all a bit confusing, with talk of ejector crabs, blades, and straying into other crews’ water, so thought I’d do my best to explain. The...
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The Boat Race – tantrums and tiaras or a serious contest?
Photograph by Rud Glazn I didn’t really want to write this post. I don’t like getting into Twitter-spats and try to keep things friendly here. But as the Boat Race approaches, the jibes – invariably...
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The Boat Race 2016 – and how women’s rowing was the winner
There’s a lot of nonsense talked about rowing. Of all the foolishness I’ve heard over the years, two dumb ideas stand out. One is that women’s rowing is less exciting to watch than men’s. The other is...
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True Blue – Girl on the River finally makes the crew
It’s fair to say that my student days, back in the dim and distant past, were not spent pursuing a healthy lifestyle. I did devote a reasonable amount of time to poring over dusty legal textbooks,...
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What to expect at the Vets’ Head
(Pic by Ben Rodford, ridiculous editing by me) With just two Vets’ Heads under my belt, I’m hardly a world-weary, battle-scarred war horse. I do, however, remember vividly what it’s like to race on...
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The Boat Race crews laid bare
I don’t know about you, but as soon I know I’m being watched, my rowing completely falls apart. All it takes is a few people hanging out on the rowing club steps and I’m thrashing about like a...
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Irish Olympian Claire Lambe on why the team is everything
One of the reasons I was so excited to see the Cambridge University Women’s crew training for Sunday’s Boat Races was the fact that the number three seat is occupied by none other than Irish Olympian,...
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