‘Queens ergs’ is the best experience to introduce novices to the competitive environment filled with adrenaline that rowing provides. This year it must have been the combination of loud, deafening music plus the shouting, and the massive screen that helped us ‘push back’ and ‘stretch those legs’ faster and harder. We had a very promising start and managed to stay on the third position for most of the time, struggling to overcome Christ’s and Clare! We finished on the eighth place, but this was by all means a great victory as it made us all understand better the notion of team playing and seeded the desire to get better!! After the competition I could still feel the adrenaline and the excitement, and all this made me question once more: who needs anything else when you have rowing??
Andreea Dogar