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A Day at University 2010-02-23
Having been out of school for close to five years, it is certainly nice to be back! Oddly enough, however, I've been living in college towns since I graduated from university (first Camridge, MA a...
Winter Training Starts 2010-02-09
On 3 January 2010 we met at 4am at Iffley Road to take the OUBC team vans to London Heathrow airport. Our destination was Le Temple-Sur-Lot, a small village in the south of France halfway between T...
OUBC Blog January 2010 2010-01-21
On the Saturday preceding our ill-fated Trial Eights race, we left the Wallingford stretch and moved to Putney, with Westminster School our gracious hosts. Over the next five days we tried to emula...
OUBC Blog December ‘09 2009-12-16
For most students the end of Michaelmas Term marks the beginning of a relaxing, leisure time, which finally peaks in holidays. For us, however, it meant an increased amount of daily training in bot...
A Typical OUBC Day 2009-12-01
Maybe I’m paranoid about sleeping through, but better safe than sorry: I always set three morning alarm clocks, so at 6:15 my room is a cacophony of bells and buzzers. The next thing I know I’m cy...
The Fours head by 2009 Isis Rower Alex Dent 2009-11-17
The cancellation of the Fours Head provided a bit of test to our spirits. With the whole squad having been training hard towards this race for a good number of weeks, it was a shame not to put all ...
Returning coxswain Adam Barhamand introduces the second of Oxford's main training locations, Caversham 2009-11-03
It seems not very long ago that I was sitting in the OUBC gym at Iffley Road for the first meeting of the 2009-10 campaign, but already 7 weeks have come and gone. The fact that time has flown by i...
OUBC Blog 28th October 2009 2009-10-29
American cox Adam Barhamand, who steered Isis to victory in 2009, sets the scene at the start of Oxford’s training for the 2010 Xchanging Boat Race: <BR><BR> With the cold weather moving in fast...