Dear coxes, This is only really of interest to those college crews planning to race WEHoRR or ManHoRR this year. Sophie Shapter has kindly agreed to give a presentation on steering, racing and navigating on the Tideway in Emmanuel college at 7:30pm on Tuesday the 6th of March (i.e. the Tuesday after Lent bumps).
I've attached a quick note/bio from Sophie below to give a sense of her experience with this stretch of water. Speaking personally, I really can't recommend this talk enough. Racing on the Tideway is a fantastic experience, but utterly unlike racing on-Cam, and steering well to take advantage of the stream can reduce your time by tens of seconds. Please do consider sticking it in your diaries. Best of luck for the last week of training ahead of Lents, and hope to see many of you there, Isabel, CUCBC Committee --------------------- I'm Sophie Shapter, I've been coxing and coaching for almost 10 years now (probably too long) and up until this year, all my experience has been on the Tideway. I started coxing aged 13 at school when my coach told me I was small, pointed to the coxes seat and said "sit there". So I did, and have never looked back since (not literally, it's always good to look behind you once in a while). After a couple of years coxing at school, my coach sent me to Thames Rowing Club, where I started to cox the senior men. This was an awesome experience as I got to compete at a high club level at events like Men's Head and Henley from the age of 16. By the time I left school I decided I'd had enough of full time coxing and started to coach the junior squad at multiple clubs along the Tideway. Meanwhile I kept up my coxing by subbing into crews here there and everywhere for training and racing whenever needed. After three years of coaching my hunger to cox came back and I joined Tideway Scullers full time again, and now here I am at Cambridge coxing for CUWBC, heading for the Boat Race in a few weeks time. I never thought I'd ever get the opportunity to do The Boat Race, and it's been a dream of mine since the age of 15, so it's mad to think the dream will come true. Anyway, I'm going to be talking about coxing on the Tideway for those all important head races coming up, as well as how to structure a race plan, marshalling, and anything else that might be of interest to people.
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