A good race. I thought at the start that Oxford looked stronger, but was extremely pleasantly surprised by how strong and collected the Cambridge crew looked. Until I looked away from the screen for a few seconds, looked back, and the light blues had lost a length, gone from being up, looking in command, to behind, looking rushed.
They never came back. Within a short while it became apparent that Oxford had gained the upper hand, and that we weren't going to come back.
Mind you, when I found out we'd lost our stroke this week to heart problems, it didn't augur well!
Yours, disappointed, but thrilled to have been able to watch the race,
N.
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3 comments:
I watched the race too :) Didn't know who to cheer on though!
It was very windy and that made the race slightly more unpredictable than it should have been - given the weight superiority of the Oxford crew.
I think that losing their stroke three days before the race must have taken a huge toll on the Cambridge crew too. They train for months together, to develop an amazing rhythm, and then get thrown for a loop like that....
N.
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