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Spring Head to Head - Results

Posted: Sunday 10 May 2009, 9:54AM by Lisa Meegan

A busy weekend of racing for Sidney's crews began on Saturday 9th May, when M2, M4 and W2 took to the river for the Spring Head to Head - a 2km race downstream, followed by a second 2km race the other way. Once again there were strong performances all round.

M2 were third in their division, and just ten seconds off the win over the two legs, beating many crews around and above them in bumps, as well as some noteable college second VIIIs. In their first race of term, M4 also impressed, coming in just 1:10 behind M2 over the whole 4km, with a time that compares well with numerous other fourth, and even third, boats.

The day also brought Sidney's second win of the term, with W2 managing to just pip Jesus as the fastest second boat of the day, in a time that put them well ahead of many of the bigger clubs' second boats.

The results were:

M2 - 14:47 (07:03 and 07:44)
3rd in Men's Lower Division VIIIs

M4 - 15:57 (07:33 and 08:24)
12th in Men's Lower Division VIIIs

W2 - 17:10 (08:10 and 09:00)
1st in Women's Second VIIIs

Well done to all of the crews!

W2- Spring Head to Head

Posted: Tuesday 19 May 2009, 1:05PM by Sarah Parks

Spring Head to Head saw W2 in their first race of term. Having had some rather mixed training outings we were unsure what we could produce, and not particularly keen about doing two 2k races in a row.

We made our way up to the railway bridge and then spent what seemed like forever waiting in the middle of the river, trying to avoid being shouted at by the houseboat owners whose houseboats we were marshalling next to. Finally however it was time to go and we were off. Mark quickly shouted from the bank that we were 'munching up' FAT 2 but after that we just settled into a rhythm and reached the motroway bridge, tired but dissapointed that we had not rowed as well as we could.

Waiting at the lock we all decided the row home would be different and this time we were going to show FAT we could catch them. Mark arranged for a gap of about 15 lengths and we really went for it. At the plough he called 6 lengths (which was in fact 10) and that was it, we chased hard all the way down the reach, with a call of 3 lengths about half way down, and finished half a length off, shattered but extremely pleased with ourselves. We were even more excited to find out later we had beaten Jesus 2 by 1 second and had won our division.

Thank you very much to Nora and Tash for subbing in.