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Winter Head to Head 2011-12
22nd January 2012The Winter Head to Head took place on Saturday 21st January. Despite being dry, it was a rather windy day testing our three crews who were racing: M1, W1 & M2. The full results can be found here and race reports will be displayed below when available.
Training camp on Lac d'Aiguebelette
13th January 2012Members of the club returned safely last night from a successful week rowing on Lac d'Aiguebelette in the Savoie region of France. 36 rowers, 4 coxes and 5 coaches spent 6 days training on the lake which has just won its bid to host the World Rowing Championships in 2015.
Blessed with good weather and clear water rowers were able to spend 2-3 outings on the lake each day and the week was finished with a series of 1km relay races between the four VIIIs.
Boathouse redevelopment website
23rd December 2011| There is now a section on our website dedicated to providing information about the boathouse redevelopment project. Please click here to see the redevelopment home page. |
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Sponsored Erg - Challenge successfully completed
4th December 2011Our sponsored erg, in aid of the January training camp took place on Saturday 3rd December 2011. Starting at 6am and finishing at 6pm over fifty five members worked together to cover a total distance of one million, one hundred and forty nine thousand, seven hundred and seventy eight metres (1,149,778m)! This far exceeded our target of one million metres. Some statistics are shown below.
Furthest distance covered by...
a man: Matt Pryn - 79,118m (5.5 hrs)
a woman: Alice Taylor-Bennet - 40,000 (3.5 hrs)
a novice: Elias Lehtonen - 54,567m (4 hrs)
a cox: Ross Kempsell - 22,430 (2 hrs)
an alumni member: Duncan Bull - 21,205m (1.5hrs)
Sponsored Erg Live Updates
3rd December 2011Today, Saturday 3rd December, Christ's College Boat Club are setting out to complete over 1000,0000 (1 million) metres on indoor rowing machines with the aim to complete the distance before the boat club dinner this evening! Starting at 6am, all eight rowing machines will need to be manned all day in order to complete the challenge.
Fairbairn Cup 2011-12
1st December 2011Fairbairn Cup 2011 is scheduled for Thursday 1st December (Novices) and Friday 2nd December (Seniors). This year Christ's have four novice crews entered into the novice division. Racing in the senior race will be M1, W1, NM1 (the novices M1 crew are doing both the novice and senior competition!) as well as three alumni crews: two Men's and one Women's. Race reports will be posted here shortly after the races.
Clare Novice Regatta 2011-12
25th November 2011Christ's have four novice crews entered into Clare Novice Regatta this year. Crews will be racing between Thursday 24th and Saturday 26th November. Details on how our crews are doing, along with times they are racing (so you can come and support) can be found here. Races start at Ditton Corner and finish at Peter's Post.
Emma Sprints 2011-12
25th November 2011This year only one Christ's crew took part in Emma Springs - Novice M1. Emma Sprints is as much about fun as anything else with prizes for the best costumes.
Winter Head 2011-12
19th November 2011On Saturday 19th November, 5 Christ's crews took part in the Cambridge Winter Head. This was the first on-the-water race for our novice M1 and W1 crews.
Summary of results:
W1 - joint 3rd in Senior division; joint 3rd of College Women's VIIIs
M1 - 8th in Senior division; 7th of Cambridge Men's VIIIs; 16th overall
W2 - 6th in division; 12th of College Women's VIIIs.
nW1 - 4th in Beginner division; 1st of Cambridge Novice Women's VIIIs
nW2 - 12th in Beginner division; 4th of Cambridge Novice Women's VIIIs
nM1 - 3rd in Beginner division; 1st of Cambridge Novice Men's VIIIs
Sponsored Erg in aid of January Training Camp
16th November 2011
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After the success of last year's Lent Term foreign training camp, CCBC are going to repeat the camp this coming January. The details of the camp are much the same as last year with the club travelling by coach to Lake Aiguebelette near Lyon in France. Last year we found that the ability to have the club away from Cambridge, with uninterrupted rowing water not only allowed both ex-novices and seniors to make massive strides in their rowing technique, but also created strong bonds between club members. |
