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Little Ray came with us to watch the rowing, I shouldn’t laugh but he slipped down the bank twice, luckily he was on the lead and we pulled him out.

local bird lady thrilled by valinor biodiversity after spending most of her life in one town

(the short hair is either a fashion choice or a deliberate nod to lúthiens hair cutting shenanigans. your pick)

photos my coach took at training this morning <3

i’m the girl crashing out in 7 seat :)

2 DAYS UNTIL HEAD OF THE RIVER IM SO SCARED BUT SO EXCITEDDDD

yallllllll i think she likes me backkkk

(we made eye contact a few times while rowing to the start line and she smiled at me and she was looking over at me and she congratulated our crew after the race)

(she’s from our biggest rival rowing club)

(i’ve never talked to her and she’s probably straight and im so delulu)

REGATTA DAY TODAYYYY 🔥🔥🔥🚣‍♀️

i watched half an episode of arcane on the bus ride here!!

i’ve just been working on rigging boats and moving oars

i have to be with my crew for my VIII race in 23 minutes and then straight after that i have to get to my quad race

also i’m stroke seat for my quad race!!!

i’ll update with my results in a few hours <3

rowing sunrise photos <3

training starts at 5am in the dark, these photos are from when we were walking from the boat shed to school

this song at 5am before rowing <3

rowing regatta update nobody asked for 😍

i had my VIII race and it went pretty well and we came 3rd!! we lowkey crashed into the pontoon at the start line tho…

it was only a 1km race but i still felt rly tired after bc i just recovered after having the flu…

then as soon as i got back in from my VIII race i had to get to my quad race and i was meant to be 3 seat but the girl in stroke reeeeallyyy didn’t want to be stroke seat so we swapped

we did so well in that race!!!! we came 2nd and we all rowed in time and with really good technique and no crabs!! and my coach told me she might put me in stroke seat more often.

alsooooo there was this really pretty girl in stroke seat for our biggest rival school…. we actually made eye contact and we congratulated each other after our races

after that my friends and i bought food and smoothies from the food stalls and helped with boats and derigging

while i’m writing this we are on the bus back to the boatshed. it’s like an hour long.

1 more regatta until head of the river!!!

why is the bus ride to the regatta so long

it’s a bus full of teenage girl rowers at 5am like it’s crazy here

if you can’t tell we wrote ‘oh naur the condensation’ in the condensation on the window