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Lent Bumps Dinner Invitation

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Dear All, Please find the Lent Bumps Invitation attached. It’s a annual event to celebrate the Club’s performance in the Lent Bumps, joined by Peterhouse BC. Please feel free to extend the invitation to your friends.

The MECBC Committee looks forward to seeing you there! Boatie Love, Ola Janusz
Marina Steketee
MECBC Social Secretaries

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Novice Fairbairns 2010

After seven weeks of training, Murray Edwards has four novice crews going into Fairbairns races this year. With ice in front of Goldie boathouse the day before novice Fairbairns, the weather forecast was definitely against us.

Yet at 7:45am it was found that, though snow was coming down, the river was in fact fluid enough to race on– hooray! The day's races proceeded according to a revised schedule that was only posted the day before the race, with a shortened course that finished at Peter's Post (1814m from Jesus boathouse).

First two races of the day were Mr Frisky and Hedgehunter. Mr Frisky has a reasonable start, got round corners very effectively, and did a tidy push to the finish. Hedgehunter had a rougher start, but with the river wide open ahead and behind them they had a good row, passing all the corners without major incidents.

The same cannot be said of the Sidney Sussex 3rd novices who were chased by Really Fast Horse in the late morning division. Firstly, we caught up with them just after Elizabeth Road Bridge and had to stop rowing, and restart with a gap. As we came around the corner with Churchill boathouse they crashed into the outside of the corner which allowed us (thank god) to overtake them with a large margin.

Though I did not get to see Comply or Die in their race, they came a very respectable 9th of the Cambridge colleges, beating the likes of Magdalene, Downing, Sidney, and First and Third Trinity.

Mr Frisky came 32th out of 51 in the womens' division, placing them 8th among college novice 2nd VIIIs, and beating the 1st novices of Robinson among others.

Really Fast Horse and Hedgehunter came 37th and 38th in the division. Though they appear to be slower than Selwyn III, there is a Selwyn II boat much further down on the results, which could mean that Selwyn have swapped boats without informing the race organisers. This means that Really Fast Horse is 2nd, if not 1st, out of the college novice 3rd VIIIs. Well done!

Finally, Hedgehunter is the only college novice 4th VIII in the womens' division this year. Yet they have beaten Homerton, Girton, and St Edmund's 1st novices, not to mention numerous other 2nd and 3rd VIIIs.

Other fun facts:
 – as a club we have consumed 4 packs of jelly sweets, 2 packs of dolly mixes, 2 bags of starbursts, and 5 tubes of vimto chewy sweets today.
 – this, I think the best photo from today http://www.jetphotographic.com/showphoto.php?id=211704

I cannot say how proud I am of all of you. Well done for staying with us all term. Well done for all the subbing needed to make today happen. Well done for all the singing and manning up against the snow and cold. Well done and hope to see lots of you coming back to row as seniors next term.

Ying Chow
Vice Captain

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Results 2010-2011

May Bumps W1, W2

W1 – bumped Darwin, Anglia Ruskin, Robinson and Jesus II, finishing 6th in division 2.
W2 – bumped Darwin II, Addenbroke’s, Jesus III and St Edmund’s, finishing 16th in division 3.

The club also won the Pegasus Cup.

Champs Head W1, W2

W1 – 6:10.51 – 2nd in Mays W2 division, 4th out of all college womens crews.
W2 – 6:37.58 – 1st in Mays W4 division, beating 8 W1 crews and 11 men’s crews.

WEHoRR W1

W1 – 21:38.22, finished 146/296

Lent Bumps W1, W2

W1 – Bumped Jesus II, Sidney Sussex, LMBC II and Emmanuel II to finish 3rd in division 2
W2 – Bumped by Lucy Cav II, Bumped by Girton II, Bumped by Fitz II, Rowed over to finish bottom in division 3

Lent Getting On Race W2, W3

W2 got on – starting at 15th in the 3rd division
W3 – 11:57.2

Pembroke Regatta W1

1st Round – Beat Sidney Sussex W1 (04:07)
2nd Round – Beat Corpus W1 (04:10)
3rd Round – knocked out by Emmanuel W1 (04:01)

Fairbairns Cup

Senior Races postponed to early 2010 as river was frozen.

Novices (Race shortened due to ice on the river)

Comply or Die
10/52 time 8:37.8

Mr Frisky
33/52 time 9:47.0
– 8th of all College 2nd novices

Really Fast Horse
38/52 10:05.5
– 2nd of all College 3rd novices

Hedgehunter
39/52 10:08.6
– the only 4th novices in the entire women novice division, beating 1st novices of Homerton, Girton, St Edmunds

Winter Head
W1 time 10:14
– 8th of all Cambridge colleges in all W8+ divisions
– joint 1st out of 8 Cambridge colleges in student novice division
– joint 2nd out of 15 in student novice division

Comply or Die time 12:09
– 2nd of 7 Cambridge colleges in student beginner division
– 6th out of 13 in student beginner division

Mr Frisky time 13:10
– 10th of 13 in student beginner division

Really Fast Horse time 13:32
– 12th of 13 in student beginner division

Queen’s Ergo Competition
Novice W1
– 9/35 in upper division first round, time 1:55.8
– 9th overall in finalists, average time 1:55.2
– Lizzie Gorton 10th fastest individual
Novice W2
– 30/35 in upper division first round, average time 2:05.0 (joint 7th of all W2 crews)
Novice W3
– 4/17 in lower division, average time 2:05.9 (1st of all W3 crews)

Uni IVs
W1
– knocked out Corpus in first round (3 lengths)
– knocked out by Emmanuel (finalists) in second round (3 lengths)

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Winter Head 2010

W1 arrived at the boathouse on a cold, dark Saturday morning, eager for our first head race of the year. Plenty of layers were donned, and we rowed up to the motorway bridge for marshalling. We pushed hard over the 2.5km course to the P&E, avoiding any massive drops. As a reward for our effort, we came joint 8th Cambridge College, tied with our boathouse companions Peterhouse.

Novice races in short: An excellent first race from all 3 boats, after spending forever sitting at marshalling eating copious amounts of sugar. Good rolling starts and well maintained speed and technique throughout. A 2nd place finish from Comply Or Die is especially impressive considering the flying seat incident at The Plough, leaving the boat with 7 rowers for around half the course.

Under 2 weeks until Fairbairns!! Get ready for some embarrassing songs at marshalling to fight off the frostbite.

Eve Bonner
Captain of Boats

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Michaelmas 2010 Crews

Crews listed here may be changed for some races.

Fairbairns Senior 1st VIII

Natalie Barry
Eve Bonner
Wing Ying Chow
Gina Dalgleish
Bethan Gudgeon
Ola Janusz
Nidhi Kulkarni
Rebecca Rewbury
Marina Steketee
Katie Taffler
coxes: Akiko Toda, Deborah Fisher

Racing crew on 19 Jan 2011:

  1. Rebecca Rewbery
  2. Nidhi Kulkarni
  3. Amy Crow
  4. Jess O’Driscoll-Breen
  5. Sally-Anne Bennett
  6. Eve Bonner
  7. Wing Ying Chow
  8. Natalie Barry
    cox: Akiko Toda

    Comply or Die (novice)

    1. Jeny Oates
    2. Victoria Cole
    3. Magdalena Jasicova
    4. Lizzie Gorton
    5. Sally-Anne Bennett
    6. Pauline Pilote
    7. Amy Crow
    8. Gina Dalgleish
      cox: Chloe Wallis

    Mr Frisky (novices)

    1. Melissa Brown
    2. Bex Weaving
    3. Chloe Goldthorpe
    4. Rachel Moore
    5. Anna Gelderd
    6. Mandkhai Lkhagvasuren
    7. Katrin Kopp
    8. Alice Rabone
      cox: Jess Quiney

    Really Fast Horse (novices)

    1. Caroline Henckels
    2. Eleanor Dickinson
    3. Roki Fukuzawa
    4. Holly Smith
    5. Reana Maier
    6. Vanda Pickup
    7. Sophie Madden
    8. Jess O’Driscoll-Breen
      cox: Gill Harris

    Hedgehunter (novices)

    1. Anna Webb
    2. Cleo Tung
    3. Charlotte Lamnea
    4. Jia Wei
    5. Patrycja Danisewicz
    6. Jess Rae
    7. Felicitas Parapatits
    8. Akiko Toda
      cox: Vanda Pickup
      other members: Tehnuka Ilanko
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    Fairbairns Dinner Invitation

    Hey girls,Please find the Fairbairns Dinner invitation attached. RSVP to Ola or Marina. It will be great fun, and the menu is amazing, I promise. Plus, the price includes wine, so it’s a good deal as well. We really hope to see as many of you as possible, to celebrate a great term rowing!

    Lots of boatie love

    Ola on behalf of the MECBC Committee

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    Queens Ergs 2010 – quick report

    Well done all those who raced Queens Ergs last night! The official results are not up yet, but briefly, the 5:30 team beat all the other teams racing at 5:30. The 6:30 team finished in the top half of the teams racing at 6:30, and the 8:30 team came 9th out of 35 in the first round, qualifying for the finals. Though we didn't make it to the top in the finals, we did lead the competition for at least the first third of the division, and finished with an average time of 1:55.6 which I think we can all be proud of!

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