Torpids 1997

Torpids '97 was not bad at all for Trinity Rowing.

Men's 1st EightWomen's 1st EightMen's Second Eight
Wednesday Bumped LMH before coming into the Gut. A bit of a nervous row, but it was the first day. Jesus chasing us never got close, but comfortably got the overbump on LMH.(Well done Chris, bow on stern bump.) Rowed over. LMH ahead soon bumped out on Christ Church and Brasenose didn't challenge to hard, leaving us paddling confortably over the course. Aarrgghh. We were chasing St. Anthony's, chased by Sommerville. Anthony's bump hard on Oriel V and stop. We can't avoid Anthony's and get caught up. Sommerville hit us and the dividion is stopped. OURC's in their wisdom then bumped us 4 places, fined us 50 quid and gave our cox a dangerous coxing warning. mmm.. I think I'll exercise restraint here.
Thursday Bumped St. Peters going into the gut. (Almost exactly the same place as on Wednesday.) Jesus got the overbump on Peters. No problems. Bumped Christchurch. Lincoln got close, but we got Christchurch before they got too threatening. Lincoln failed to get them on the overbump. Bumped Lincoln III, who then bumped Oriel V. Up 2 places. Not bad.
Friday Bumped Balliol. Furthest we had to row so far. Got all the way through the gut and almost onto the GreenBank. Hard work. Good bump though. Nerves start going now. A bump tomorrow and it's blades. Well done Jesus, another overbump. Got Pembroke fairly quickly. No probs. Ch. Ch. were never challenging. Good bump, excellent stuff. Well.. bumped by Sommerville II, but got Corpus II. So we sort of stayed in the same place.
Saturday BLADES.. St. Johns, before the gut. Get me a beer now. Got Somerville.. er then sank. Somerville crabbed and blocked the river. We hit them, Lincoln hit us, Pembroke hit them.. mmmm... damage. Our boat looks pretty terminally damaged. Still no injuries and we got the bump. Rowed over. Long way to the head. Wish we ate less pies during term time..!

I have some photos coming back on Thursday so look here soon for some scans.