Sinking…

On the personal paddling front, things are not going too well. The next 10 weeks being horrendously busy off the water. When one has managed to get on the water the weather has added a an extra vinaigrette to the outing. During yesterdays outing the waves were such that whilst surfing one wave (in the […]

Scottish Racing Week Concluded.

Just back from a fantastic weekend of camping in the sun by the banks of Loch Lubnaig- not a cloud or a midge in sight- is not life fantastic when viewed through a bottle of red wine. Talk about Rose tinted specs. Perhaps Beaujolais had enjoyed the Friday evening prior to Saturdays Scottish K1 Championships […]

Race Scottish Racing Week- Dullator Straight (near Kilsyth ( near Falkirk ( near Edinburgh, Scotland)))

Perhaps spending the early hours of Thursday morning sampling various malt whiskeys in Cameron House, after a very fine dinner, was not the best preparation for 10 km on a desolate, exposed, wet and windy stretch of the Forth and Clyde Canal. All the usual criminals turned up last night, so it was business as […]

Race 2 of Scottish Racing Week- Strathclyde Park

Having written yesterdays blog entry enthusiastically rather than sensibly, it suddenly dawned on me that I had left my trusty Marsport Macros K1 in the care of one Dirty D. The very same Dirty D whose good name I had dragged up and down the brownish waters of Glasgow Green within that blog entry. I […]

Race 1 Scottish Marathon Racing Week- Dirty Glesga Green

Nervous, very nervous. Quivering in fact, in places I thought I had long lost the ability to quiver. On the bank Dirty D is looking in great form. Well dangerous anyway. She and other lady members of the that group of Linlithgow Paddlers/ Coven look to be plotting. There is certainly a hubble, lots of […]

Beaujolais visits the Kingdom of Murr… A new boat….The Opening salvo is delivered at Scottish Racing Week

Utterly exhausted this morning. Since leaving Helensburgh last Wednesday I believe I must have averaged approximately 20 miles a day of paddling. All from a standing start. My first venture on that Wednesday evening was the Linlithgow 10k summer series race in a K1. This proved what I already knew. I was slow and fat. […]