May Bumps 2001

All the latest News and Results from our gallant crews competing in May Bumps 2001

(See also the CUCBC page)

Results

Crews	Started	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Finished
Men's 1st	10th					10th
	(Div 1)	Pem I	-	Rob I	-	(Div 1)
Women's 1st	10th					10th
	(Div 1)	-	-	-	-	(Div 1)
Men's 2nd	16th					3rd
	(Div 2)	Pem II	Chr II	Catz II	Cla II	(Div 3)
Women's 2nd	4th					5th
	(Div 3)	Que II	-	LMBC III	Pem II	(Div 3)
Men's 3rd	13th					17th
	(Div 4)	Gir III	Dar II	CCAT II	Cai III	(Div 4)
Men's 4th	16th					3rd
	(Div 5)	A'brooke	1&3 VI	Jes VI	Emma IV	(Div 6)

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News

Wednesday

Men's 1st bump Pembroke I

Following a superb fortnight building up to Bumps Week, the guys were well fired up to get Pembroke I on the first day. We got a good start and took half a length off them by the motorway bridge. Settling into our rhythm we comfortably pushed off Queens' and got two whistles on Pembroke halfway down 1st Post Reach. Staying calm and focused we pushed on harder and got overlap going into 1st Post Corner. The bump was inevitable and came about halfway round the corner as our bow came to rest comfortably on their stroke's rigger.

Tomorrow we're chasing Christs - who later had the cheek to ask if Pembroke had suffered equipment failure!

Will Courtenay

Women's 2nd bump Queens II

Churchill II ladies knew that their first day would be tough with an impressive looking LMBC III chasing them and Queens II, an unknown quantity ahead of them. But they set off determined and made one of their best starts so far this term gaining on Queens with every stroke. However, LMBC were chasing hard and getting whistles for closing the gap on Churchill, but at the same time Churchill got their 1st whistle for Queens. This spurred Churchill on and they kept LMBC at bay around First Post and Grassy. With a fantastic group of supporters cheering the crew on past Grassy and an Up 2 and a Bumping 10 in the Plough reach, Churchill got their bump!

Jeni Harper

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Thursday

Men's 1st row over

Rowing over is a painful experience, all too often associated with rowing in the top half of the 1st divisions. You get all the pain of a bumps race but at the end you lack any feeling, it's a personal because you didn't bump. The only positive is that you always have tomorrow.

We already knew that the third day would be difficult and we are prepared for it, the crew is mainly silent, each of us thinking as a unit, we know what it is like to bump together and we want it again. Want is too weak a word to describe it, so on Friday we'll be going all out, no holds barred, taking no prisoners. Friday is when we show them all exactly what we've got. And when we get out of that boat we will know if it was enough.

Brian McGee