Devizes Westminster Blog

4:51 am. Time to get up. It’s not easy though. It is of course Black outside and I can hear rain beating down as I hide under the duvet. If it is cold as it was yesterday it will take a good 15 minutes to defrost the car. However maybe not with all this rain- […]

Frazzled

Well that’s Sunday finished, now just 5 days to go before leaving for Fat Busting Camp. But a hell of a lot to do in order to get away. It’s going to be 5am to 10:30pm shifts from the look of it. So unlikely to paddle this week. Therefore for the next three weeks no […]

Do we really have to go out there…

Both Domino and I are miserable. We are standing in the doorway peering out into the pitch black. Whilst one can see very little, there is every indication it is very wet, and already our body temperatures are dropping. Domino who is made of sterner stuff than me, gives her claws one last grind into […]

TGIF… not

It’s been a long week on a number of fronts. Pretty knackered but now it’s Friday, but rather than relaxing, it’s now time to try and push harder for this weekend and next week are pretty stacked in order that fitness, work and personal requirements can be met so that I am able to abscond […]

Ying and Yang

Beaujolais had been rather caught out, photographic evidence suggests a lack of martial vigour from the rear of the boat on the start line of the Scottish K2 Champs. Dirty D on the other hand looks ready to let slip the dogs of war. Dirty D is once again unimpressed and is, as a result, […]

Peace in Our Time…. well of a sorts

This mornings run, press ups and sit ups circuits marginally more comfortable than the preceding 2 days- which is an improvement of sorts. Although still stopping after 2 sets. The idea is to build to 4 sets, but for the moment if one wants to be in anyway productive for the rest of the day, […]

Should have kept quiet…. a disciplinary visit from Dirty D….

Despite Beaujolais’s efforts the Monday Morning weigh in was a disaster. 16 stone 4 lbs- a 4 lb increase in weight over the week! It is not really Beaujolais’s fault. It was the dastardly Red Baron who suggested Beaujolais was in danger of getting to fixated by the scales, it was the cunning Hun who […]

So as we head into the Serious Business of Winter Training…

Up this morning at 5am. A short run- it was bloody freezing, Winter is knocking on the Door big time with cars and roads covered in a significant layer of frost, then 2x 20 Press Ups and Sit Ups (it was supposed to be 4x but the first 2 sets left me a quivering wreck). […]

Belated Fire Works

Well there were Fire Works yesterday, but regrettably not from Beaujolais in the back of the K2. Last off the start, last to cross the line. Nothing else to report, no crews passed- unless you count crews returning on the second leg. Ben and Morgan even gave us a shoeing. Not bad for the boys. […]

Off to Ratho and Scottish k2 Marathon Championships

Boats were loaded last night, after Morgan and I went for another 7 km spin on Loch Lomond in the Sipre. Liking this boat a little too much especially when it’s blowing hard, raining and choppy. It even has storage compartments for accommodation, mobile kitchen, and food and beverage supplies. Beaujolais just needs to add […]