getting on race!

the race yest was fabulous! it's all in the pics!

here we are, anxiously waiting the start of the race. we were marshalling at the end nearest the log and just waiting, feeling absolutely cold.. luckily i bought the spash jacket to keetp warm woo. we all look nice and uniform! i love the colours! light and dark blue :) with the red martlet (our mascot) on the front.

and then to keep warm. we devised a plan of exercise. bow side hand up! stroke side hands out! hahha then continue in time with stroke (rosie) with the cox (peter) counting.. hahah! i bet the other boats were mystified at what we were doing, cos we were laughing so hard at the same time too

look at the queue for the start of the race! we were racing at the end of the men's division, so that explains the men's boat behind us. each boat gets set off like 30 seconds after the previous boat goes, and this was a time trial racing the entire bumps course. if we get top 8 out of all the women's boats racing today, we get into BUMPS! which is only like the biggest racing event in lent term! we've been training for this for the whole of term! going out earlier and earlier each week as it gets lighter earlier now. it was 6.30am last week!

Pembroke W4 on the river! still waiting to be called up to the start line.

"all rocking over backwards at the same time! following the person in front!" typical cox speech. haha. oh i should have bought the tech top too! that the picture would look totally uniformed.

cat and i! after the race, totally shattered but looking please for ourselves.

and this is how we were all feeling! woooo helen! i hope she gets to change her flight so i can bring her around singapore during the summer! :):)

right then, now back to the tons of work that has been piling up. :S