Unofficially Thames Rowing Club

Taking advantage of the long Easter weekend, three exiled Thames members got together for a bit of rowing Down Under – and came away not only with pots but also prize money.

Mahe wins by a huge, huge margin. Watching on my computer at work – missed the start, but he had clear water over Rob by 500m and just stretched it out rating 28. Well-deserved in my opinion.
The NZ Olympic squad is announced on Friday; I think there’d be general surprise if Rob wasn’t featured somewhere

Morning: Just in from Karapiro – Waddell gets race 2. Mahe won the first trials race yesterday quite decisively but Rob’s just edged out race 2 by half a length. So it all comes down to tomorrow … word on the street is that the loser will get a spot in another boat, presumably at [...]

So Helen and Lucy were finished today, but we had senior fours left. Nerves gathered. They put everything forward, squishing finals from 15 mins apart to just 10. Luckily we found out in time, so that was okay – weather was still rather bad, though better than yesterday.
We got a great start – easily the [...]

An interesting sort of day’s racing today in which everyone was battling just to stay afloat. Slight cross-winds this morning gathered strength and by the time Lucy and I were boating for the pairs the waves were really rather wavy and it was just horrid. The race got off to a very slow start, everyone [...]

Greetings everyone from t’other side of the world! It’s very hot and muggy here in Cambridge but luckily there’s no wind, so Lake Karapiro has been flat for both days of racing so far. Let’s pray it lasts!
The big news from yesterday’s racing was probably that Caroline Evers-Swindell got beaten by an Aussie in the [...]