A wake up call

Last night I spoke to Mike Kelly, my fathers K2 partner in the 1977 DW. Mike went on to successfully represent Great Britain. Unsurprisingly, Mike has a wealth of experience, and has most kindly offered to assist over the course of DW 2010 Easter Weekend. I am really chuffed by this news, although having Mike […]

Nervous Shakedown

Last night I had the opportunity to meet up with Graeme and give him his Christmas present. His greeting, “hello you chunky b…” was less than charitable, given my sensitivity to my inexplicable sudden weight gain of the last week. Further Graeme smugly announced that he has with one exception (the rowing club night out) […]

Caerleon…The final Bill

I am back home in Scotland…Hurrah. However I have now had an opportunity to weigh myself, 17 stone 6 lbs……!!~##@@@hh. This means on this visit to Caerleon I have put on almost a stone, and managed only two outings (one of only 200 metres) in the past 10 days. My plan to paddle the Kennet […]

The Curse of Caerleon

Its happened again, I have put on over a half a stone in a week I am now 17 stone and 3 lbs. I need to get home. The weather looks as if it is going to deteriorate down here again, so if we leave it is probably going to have to be today or […]

Return to Devizes

This morning I returned to Devizes, with the intention of meeting up with Tom and Richard from Team GT Condor. At Devizes I met a charming gentleman (Richard’s uncle) who kindly, had come down to the car park, to explain that Tom and Richard could not make it. So sadly the meeting with Team Gt […]

The Sledge has come off the tracks

Merry Christmas…. The last few days have passed in a bit of blurr. On the tuesday I left Caerleon at 4:20 a.m. and arrived at Devizes at 5:20 a.m…a very euphoric moment.. the Bridge at Devizes is to me, an icomic image. Unfortunately the canal was frozen so was unable to boat. I spent the […]

Black Ice

Made it to Caerleon South Wales, with both Christmas Presents and K1 plus an empty spare V bar?. Left Helensburgh at 10:00 pm last night and enjoyed an interesting trip south featuring snow, ice and out of control articulated lorries. Made Caerleon at 6:00 am this morning, with all passengers in good health and humour. […]

Tesco Diets- A slimmer christmas dinner

The first email (from Tesco Diets) I opened this morning was possibly appropriate given that I weighed at 16 stone 12 lbs this morning. Despite having paddled 76 km in the past week I have gained 2 lbs over the last week since last Mondays weigh in. Having dropped to 16 stone 6 lbs on […]

Rage against the machine

The weekend has been a bit of a lost cause. It started going wrong on Friday evening…knowing Graeme was out enjoying the Rowing Club night out, I decided a few glasses would do no harm. Managed 21km on Saturday, it was cold again, the -6 degrees when I boated at 6:00 am. The Linlithgow time […]

The Rehab continues…..and Graeme disappoints

4 days and 4 nights…last night I was sorely tempted by a lovely little Chardonnay, with top removed and quite literally.. my name written all over it. 16 stone 6 lbs this morning…a pound a day of weight loss…the effects are becoming noticeable. I am now getting used to being questioned at work, as to […]