First Day of Lent Bumps 2018 Race Report

Our M2 raced first on this cold day to chase Queens M4. They had a good start and slowly but surely crept up on Queens to bump them just after the First Post Corner.

W1 and M1 both had a tough day of races starting off as the first boat in their respective Division 3. W1 went off on a strong first race leaving Corpus Christi W1 far behind to finish with a strong row over. M1 also had a calm and strong row over in their first race with Christ M2 incapable of catching up. Coming into their second race as sandwich boats at the bottom of Division 2, our W1 had Christs W2 to chase down and our M1 had Pembroke M2 to catch. W1 went off with a good start to catch Christ very early on just before First Post Corner to seal their position in Division 2! Our M1 went off hard to hope for an early bump but Pembroke went off equally hard. After the boats ahead of Pembroke bumped out it was obvious to our M1 cox that they were starting to slow down. They made a very strong move to gradually close the gap and to finally force their cox to concede just after Ditton Corner. M1 made it into Division 2!!