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Crew Weigh-in in London 2010-03-16
Monday marked the ‘Crew Announcement’, the beginning of the end of the Boat Race campaign. This is the day we let the public know who has been selected and is the first event that the Blue Boat ar...
Training at Nottingham 2010-02-09
<B>The month of February. It’s a time of joy or despair for the squad at CUBC.</B> <BR><BR> After months of training and trialling the Blue Boat and Goldie crews are slowly taking shape. Last we...
Winter Training 2010-01-22
After a short Christmas break, the squad regrouped on New Year's Day to travel out to our (relatively) warm weather training camp in Banyoles, Spain. This has been the destination of choice for C...
Preparations for the Trial 8s by Ted Randolph 2009-12-21
The last two weeks have brought a welcome change of scenery to our training, with the squad moving down to the River Cam in Cambridge for the annual Fairbairn’s Cup race and then on to London to pr...
Mike Thorp on life in the CUBC squad 2009-12-01
Speaking recently to a friend about my first term with CUBC I struggled to answer the question “so is it how you expected it would be?”. In some ways of course I knew what to expect; nobody enters ...
Canadian newcomer Peter McCelland writes about the Fours Head. 2009-11-17
After just over six weeks together, the weekend of the Fuller’s Fours Head was upon us. As the name suggests, it is a race contested in fours (coxed and coxless, as well as by quads). Over 400 bo...
A day in the life of a Cambridge Rower 2009-11-03
Hughes Hall College student, Fred Gill, who rowed in the Goldie crew this year, looks ahead to the Fours Head race: <BR><BR> The term is underway and we find ourselves submerged in the same daily...
CUBC Blog 28th October 2009 2009-10-28
George Nash, a member of the Goldie crew in 2009, recounts a tough start to the Cambridge training programme with the Royal Marines at Lympstone in Devon: <BR><BR> Retrospectively, tough experi...