Torpids Day 1 – 2nd March 2022

M1 Day 1 – Andrew Tucker Wednesday saw a very positive start to our Torpids campaign with a comfortable row over. We pulled many boat lengths away from a chasing Mansfield M1 (the closest they came to bumping us being post-race when they nearly dropped their boat on our prized Empacher) and took nearly 7…

TorpEights 2021: M2 Race Reports

With a nearly complete set of race reports for the Hertford M2 boat, you can get into the heads of the hardy crew. M2 bumped up on day one of racing, were bumped by Linacre M2 on day two, were bumped again by Lincoln and overbumped by Pembroke M3 on the third day, and finished…

TorpEights 2021: W2 Race Reports

W1 DAY 1- 08/06/21 Niamh, W2: “It’s the first day of racing and we are all feeling nervous yet extremely excited to get going.  Having not trained much together as a crew and with many of us never having rowed before this term, we are unsure what to expect from the elusive Oxford Torpids. As…