Norwich head; or: Chesterton men leave the Cam for the first time in yonks.

GPS traces: short course; long course. Draw. I made a copy of the results here.

This is a quick post written well in arrears, just for the records.

We had a 4-, in divs 2 (short) and 3 (long); and the Dev VIII in div 3. We were the only 4- I think so had no chance for a pot. The 4- came 4th in div 2 in 7:20; and 7th in div 3 in 21:53. The VIII got 23:17.

Train to Norwich, walk station to rowing club (about 40 mins) we were trailered by… Champs?… and weren’t on till div 2 so didn’t have to get up too early. Due to the wet, wellies were needed for a 50 m stretch of the approach track, and the river edge itself was under water, but that wasn’t problematic. The club is good, there’s a lovely boathouse with wide views and nice cakes. The short course is in the into town upstream direction; the long is out of town. My, how I remember burning with anger when Dan stroked us at 30 all those years ago; I knew we should have upped the rate. Post races: into town to The Belgian Monk for food and drink. Train home.

Oh, who were we?

Long course 4-: Chris Wood (Stroke); Harry Bulstrode; Klaus Okkenhaug; William Connolley (Steer).

Short Course 4-: Ralph Hancock; Me; Dave Richards; Simon Emmings (Steer).

VIII: Cox: Simon. Stroke: Mihai, Dave, Joned, Jon, Owen, Nils, Chris Lloyd, Alex Caz.

We also went to Norwich in 2011: club blog post; my personal one.