After a storming perfomance at Newnham shortcourse a few weeks ago, finishing 10th out of 20 W1 boats, Sidney W1 arrived at the boat house full of confidence for the first day of racing. A strong battle paddle up to the start helped to strengthen our resolve to get the early bump. After a blistering start we were inside a length on Christs II in no time. Keeping the pressure on we chased them down to 3 whistles. Unfortunately, we couldn’t quite make the killer move. After losing some distance on them at grassy we started to reel them in again but not before they could get the bump on Emma II. With nothing behind us we had to settle for a steady row over. Despite not getting the result we wanted today we’re determined to come back on thursday and throw everything we have at Emma II.
