Time for a Plan B

Rather like the English Rugby team I do not appear to have a Plan B when my normal training routine gets disrupted. I have found the combination of paddling and running very effective preparation for the Devizes Westminster as well as all round fitness and wellness. The snow has really mucked things up. Not being […]

Snowed In

It would have a been a great morning for a paddle today. After the bleak, grey snowness of yesterday, it has been a beautiful day up here with the country covered in the white stuff. Unfortunately there was so much whitestuff I could not get the car out of the drive. With more Snow forecast, […]

The Day after Yesterday

It is a rather forlorn and useless Beaujolais that puts finger to keyboard this morning. Yes the Buccaneers met up for their Buccaneer Bevvy and Curry. Yes it was a great evening. Yes there is a price to be paid in the form of an almighty hangover. In addition the weather here on the West […]

A Jack with Ice, please…

Back in the boat this morning. After having dragged a less than enthusiastic No1 Son; out of bed, out of his bedroom, out of the bathroom, out of the kitchen and finally/ eventually out of the house….into the snow…where a cosy looking Coach Cortisone, in his Kung Fu Panda outfit, was awaiting. The original plan […]

Wallowing

No paddle this morning. The reason- I could not be bothered. Went for a walk instead. The Loch was beautiful morning, a flat calm, a perfect morning for paddling and a incredible sunrise. Need to get back to business tomorrow morning with Jack in the K2.

Team GT Condor plan to revisit the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals

I received an email from Tom from Team GT Condor. These are the guys that like to wine and dine their way down rivers and canals, The Egon Ronay’s of the Paddling World if you like. Certainly their guide to the Devizes Westminster is one that Michellin would be proud to produce. Anyway Tom is […]

Saga

A pretty crap outing today. The Loch was surprisingly disturbed given that it was not that windy. The “chop” appeared to have no common direction, it was coming from all points of the compass. Managed to stay upright for about 55 minutes, other than that not much achieved. The Linlithgow time trial is only a […]

Life at Sea revealed

It may be of passing interest to readers, that the National Archives have made public over 1000 Royal Naval Medical Officers journals. These cover the 18th and 19th Centuries and contain many colourful stories, ranging from VD, Scurvy, Shark Bites, Vipers and Mutiny- scintillating stuff- about as exciting as a night out with the Buccaneers […]

The Week Ahead

The Buccaneers have potentially a busy week ahead. Jack and I are supposed to be putting in a 55 km paddle on Saturday, supported/ driven on by Cortisone. The intention is to replicate our pre Devizes to Westminster training from last year and paddle from Glasgow to Linlithgow via firstly the Forth and Clyde Canal, […]

The day after yesterday

Yesterday was a good day for Victories. We have not heard from Louis the nice? South African for some time, and after events at Murrayfield yesterday afternoon I do not expect to hear from him for some time. Another potential casualty from yesterday is GB, the Viper man himself. Having had to suffer at first […]