The Life of Diana

Thank you so much to all of the photos in this post to Colin!!!  These pictures were from our Clare Sprints Plate race on Friday... and specifically from our first race against New Hall (who we completely trashed)... we also totally beat Caius... but it was almost dark outside by then, so Colin had to go home unfortunately (but totally understandably).  Then on Saturday we were back out racing in the semi-finals (we will have photos shortly care-of Nathan hehe)... and it was quite tragic.  We were racing against Queens... and right at the start of the race, our rutter completely fell off in the water, so we had virtually no way to steer the boat or control its direction.  But our amazing cox (Greg) was still able to keep us from crashing into any banks or the other boat... and we still only lost by a tiny tiny bit... which means that if we had not lost our rutter, we would have killed Queens.  So sad :( ... but anyway we have Fairburns -- our next big race (the biggest one of the term) this thursday at 11.30... so come support us (or send us positive vibes if you are one of my friends / family from the U.S.).

Here we are taking the boat out of the boat house and onto the water... and it is just exactly my turn to go over to the other side of the boat... one of the many joys of being bow side hehe.

Here is our bow side in the boat... and stern side holding the boat steady...

And now stern side is in...

Here are Lucy and Kathryn waiting to push off.

And here I am making sure the boat doesn't move off the bank quite yet... and Nienke is in front of me.

hehe so what is really interesting is to notice that from shoop (wearing the orange hat) the order of the people are: shoop, joannah, lucy, kathryn, me and nienke.

It started off a nice day for rowing... until we pushed off to race, and it started to rain :(

hehehe now notice how the order changed... now from shoop the order is: shoop, joannah, me, nienke... we swapped after we parked the boat and got out and stretched so I rowed as three instead of as five.

And now I have no green sweater on... just my gray tshirt... hehe wow the order of the pictures almost makes it seem like I just took off my sweater while rowing, but in fact we stopped in between :)

And now we are preparing to massacre New Hall (as Greg would say hehe).

Look at all of the pink Churchill spirit getting ready to paint the river pink.

Perfect posture... hands drawn in and ready to go.

Greg's hand is up in the air waiting for us to get ready to go.

And the marshall said go... and New Hall went... but we gave them a head start because we didn't want to humiliate them too badly... haha actually we were just waiting for Greg to say GO!!! so like 3 seconds after New Hall had started Greg was like AHHH GOOOOO!!!!!

Look at those muscles!!!

And we are already beating New Hall by at least bow.

And we are totally in the lead....

Still in the lead...

See a pattern yet hehe??

"Here is where you humiliate them!!!"... "I want their blood churchill!!!"... "Massacre them!!!"... this is one of the things that Greg is probably shouting in this picture... what an awesome cox!!!

And we are the winners my friends!!

And now Lady Boyd (the president of our boat club) fed us Jaffa Cakes while we waited for our next race against Caius.

Here is an overview of our whole boat parked on the bank.

And now I have a real treat for everyone... a video clip of our boat rowing against New Hall... although you can't even see New Hall because we are killing them by so much hehe.  Notice how in time we are... we look amazing girls!!!

http://www.zionadika.com/diana/xanga/ClareSprints/rowing.mov

Now you definitely should come see a free live performance at the Fairburns race on Thursday!!

Hugs,

Diana :)