"There is a place where cerebral and corporal meet: they call it rowing"

Barry Strauss   

Yes ladies and gentlemen, not everything in England is football. Let me introduce you to one of the most aristocratic, self-demanding and competitive sports I know: rowing.

Why aristocratic? Because it will cost you about £144 just for joining a rowing club and have the right to practice the sport and rowing is the sport by default of Cambridge and Oxford Universities.

Why self-demanding? Because I walk every morning to class and no matter how freezing cold, hot or weat the weather is I always see a rower struggling  against the current and training himself on the river (the training starts at 6 a.m every day).

Why competitive? Because Cambridge and Oxford rowers train hardly for seven months to face each other on one iconic race: The Boat Race.

First raced in 1829, The Boat Race is one of the most representative competitions that materialize on the water the well-known rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge.It is a 6.8 km course that takes place on the Thames in West London on the first weekend of April. This is a world famous competition and people from all over England come to London to see the show. We're talking about 270,000 people watching te race from the banks of the river and some 17.2 million enjoying the show on television.

See you soon mates