Beaujolais meets his Waterloo at Strathclyde Park

At 9.55 on Saturday morning at the Scottish Championships Beaujolais was comprehensively defeated in the Veterans Coxed Four. A few hours later he was subjected to the same experience in the Veteran Quadruple Sculling event. Two big losses. However it must be said that the Old Guard of Paul Arnold, Andy Summers and Allan McGregor […]

DW2012 minus 300…The Gathering

It is now exactly 300 days to go to DW Day 2012. This is an important milestone for me. I like to break my preparations into 3 chunks of 100 days or put another way, into 3 phases of training. The time between the previous DW and “the 300 days to go mark” to the […]

Sacre Bleu…Anarchy reigns on the Puddlefield that is the Linlithgow Summer Series round 2

Beaujolais is still reeling from the events and the fallout in the aftermath of the 2nd Round of the Linlithgow 10km Summer Series. So much so that he is not actually certain what happened. Yes he destroyed Cortisone and The Bandit easily over the 10km course, but there is despite this a definite sense of […]

Load…..Aim…..Fire, repeat….Vive L’Empereur

Only a few hours to go now to the Showdown at the Linlithgow Puddle. Beaujolais is fully loaded, with both a K1 and K2 on his roof. For Beaujolais is a gallant for whom the Chivalric Code is the rock on which honourable open Warfare flourishes. As well as his own Marsport Macros K1, Beaujolais […]

Dumped again…No Mercy

Gun boat sycophancy has not worked. Despite Beaujolais’s best efforts Cortisone is refusing to paddle with him at the 2nd race of the Linlithgow 10km Summer Series tomorrow evening. Cortisone is paddling instead with “The Bandit” which is galling on a number of fronts. First he is younger, second he is smaller, thirdly he is […]

In Praise of Cortisone

I will start this mornings blog with a quick thank you to Boots for getting in touch and updating us on Louis the Nice South Africans situation. Although Louis is currently holidaying in France he is still on target for his Eddystone Lighthouse Challenge paddle at the end of this month. Wishing Boots all the […]

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For some, very strange, reason, the comment facility was turned off yesterday. I am hoping it will be back on today. This morning Beaujolais was back in a boat for the first time since last Sundays outing with El Zorro. It has been a bad week, fitness wise, but just one outing back in the […]

SOME UPDATES

    GB, that paragon of virtue, is secretly training and training hard. He has taken a sort of Elephant and Hounds approach to training. There have been reports that GB is the target for escape and evasions exercises at Castle Semple Loch, with 33 odd juniors being challenged to catch him and sink him. To […]

Back in the Land of Reality

Reality sometimes is not a nice place to be.. The reality this morning, as I finally come out of a 3 day stupor of headaches and snot, is that in 10 days times I have 2 events to compete in at the Scottish Rowing Championships. An additional reality is than in 7 days time, it […]