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Eddie's hosted a joint social with Hughes & Lucy Cavendish last night at 99's boathouse. It was run in true QERGS style as a practice run before QERGS itself next weekend. Halloween costumes were encourage and we were delighted to see some super outfits on display and a great turnout! RESULTSMixed seniors 1st Lucy Cav (1:47.5/500m) 2nd Hughes Hall (1:48.0/500m) 3rd Eddie's women (1:50.9/500m) Mixed Novices 1st Hughes Hall (1:45.7/500m) 2nd Lucy Cav (1:46.8/500m) 3rd Eddie's (1:54.8/500m) Overall 1st Hughes Hall (1:46.9/500m) 2nd Lucy Cav (1:47.2/500m) 3rd Eddie's (1:56.8/500m)
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For the first time in recent history, St. Edmund’s entered a boat into the University IVs competition. Part head race, part regatta, where two 4+ crews set off 150m apart and race for the best time over a 2km course. With ARU dropping out, Eddies progressed straight to the semi-final against Emma W2. Eddies brought only their meanest faces and strongest watts onto the water ending with a competitive time of 9:06! Sadly, it was not quite enough to beat the Div.1 Emma crew, but Eddies rowed back home with a feeling of accomplishment (and very sore legs). The senior women begun training for the race before the start of Michaelmas term and faced a numerous number of hurdles. With rowers getting injured or severely ill, rowers being unable to make the afternoon race slot due to university work (do we learn here, I thought we just rowed?), and rowers switching from stroke to bow side, the race line up seemed to change every week. While our formidable crew—Adriana, Kathy, Kiran, and Sophie—ultimately rowed, I’d also like to take this moment to acknowledge Shannon, Xen, and Rosie who all helped make this race happen. And another huge thank you to our formidable cox-coach Abbie who took the tightest line around grassy and coach Matt (who even smiled a little bit)! Written by Elizabeth Leung (Womens Captain) Practice start on the plough reach
Eddie’s Eagles were back racing on the Cam as a 4+ at Autumn Head. Below is a race report written by women's captain Elizabeth Leung. “Eddies made their return to the Cam this Saturday racing in Autumn Head. They had a stacked 4+ boat with the ‘meerkat’ Elizabeth and our small-but-mighty powerhouse Kathy in stroke pair and our bow pair wow pair Sophie and Shannon making their SECBC racing debut. While the sun was thankfully out, this crew had to fight against the wind and heavy stream through the 2.6km course. And, in true Eddies fashion, they had some hiccups in the race. But when the cox box died mid-race, Abbie powered through unfazed. Feeling good about our first race of the 2023-24 year, it is but a stepping stone to the University IVs race in the coming weeks. Yeah Eddies!” We had the first two novice taster sessions over the weekend - they were fully subscribed and great fun was had by all! With ten novices & five seniors there were plenty of hands on the boat. Many hands make light work and all that....! The sessions kicked off with a talk from either one of our women's coaches Matt/Abbie, or a senior rower explaining the different parts of the rowing stroke, and the separation of movements. After a quick demo it was the novice's turn to show us what they've got! Once the basics were established we all mucked in to get our lovely 'Lily' boat out of the boat house - no easy task given that she sits four racks up!  Novice's on the ERGs Once Lily was safely out and in the water we went through the basic calls/commands that our cox Alannah was likely to use in the outing, and then got some of the novices in on stroke side whilst we held down the riggers, so that they could practice taking a stroke. Once everyone had had a go at this it was time to push off. Each batch of novices got to row to Jesus lock and back - assisted by having seniors in stroke, 2 & bow. On both days everyone did extremely well & we even had them taking a few strokes in sixes!!!! After the outing, everyone mucked in to give Lily a thorough sponge down, rinse and dry before heading upstairs to enjoy some well deserved schnaaaaacks! The keen beans then headed to our favourite pub across the water - the Fort St George! They really should sponsor us....  Yeah Eddie's!!!
As well as our water tasters we are also running some FUN ERGs in the evenings at College. These sessions spend some time going over the separation, some steady state rowing with feedback from our seniors, and finish with a fast paced, action packed ERG relay - QERG's style!
We have a busy fortnight ahead with a further SEVEN taster sessions scheduled, as well as more fun ERG's. If you've attended one already, feel free to sign up to more, and if you're totally new to this - fill out our interest form so that we can send you all the details you need to know!
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