New Routine…

A delicious Christmas dinner, a few (many) glasses of prosecco and a firm handshake – the newest member of the support crew is confirmed. The husband of Lucious Lou – Joe, my brother in law completes the husband and wife tag team element of our support crew. Having seen these two encourage and cajole their […]

Paddling Mojo?

Hello, It’s me, I was wondering if after all these weeks you’d like to meet…. As the Mighty B alluded to, paddling hasn’t been happening much of late… Work, family and weather all conspiring against our dynamic duo. But things are still heading in roughly the right direction – the boat, when we manage to get […]

Ice Cube dead ahead….. Aaaah

Beaujolais has rather fallen off the wagon of late. It all started with what looked to be an innocuous invite to a Christmas Luncheon. Pre Lunch drinks at 12:00 and lunch served at 14:00… What could possibly go wrong… Roll on 12 hours… And the party still going strong, there’s been Kareoke, dancing and more… […]

Portages #16 & #15 – Hurley and Temple

Getting a little behind on the ‘a portage a week…’ so two this week… Hurley: Another portage in the dark that left me with no lasting memories… Temple: Fairly straightforward… But after dark, after a long days paddling nothing is too straightforward!! Onwards into Christmas………

Don’t Take the Low Road…

A paddle this afternoon, a trip out to the pontoon and back… Sheesh there’s a lot of water out there, even by Loch Lomond standards! This is what’s still showing of our usual launching pontoon. To reach the floating element there’s a concrete runway which when we started our training in the autumn had a […]

What’s Harder Than Training for DW?

Not training for DW……… Work, weather and other commitments are biting hard currently – it’s gotten so bad that Dirty D has been running, twice! It’s frustrating to say the least, but this is just another element to this race and it’s training campaign – Beaujolais and Dirty D are possibly luckier than your ‘average’ DW crew […]

Portage #17 – Hambledon

Sonning, Shiplake, Marsh and then Hambledon – a portage I don’t recall from our 2014 campaign, so can only surmise there are no hazards of note (but plenty ways to hurt yourself, or the boat)…  

Beaujolais. 4/12/15

Weight: 100.7 kg 😦 3.5 km run 20:55 😦 Press Ups 88 Sit Ups 88 🙂 Paddling- a good k2 paddle with DD last night. Just over 10km in 62 minutes. As fast as we have paddled yet at a comfortable pace, and well under our target pace. 🙂 🙂 Other: It was good to […]

Dirty D Finds the Holy Grail – on Loch Lomond!

Never have the words been uttered before “perhaps on the return leg we could take a course closer to the bank” Dirty D is finding her mojo! Albeit her mojo was hidden on a flat calm loch! But, at this time of year the water is very cold, the dark is still menacing and in […]

Beaujolais 3/12/15

Weight: 101.1 kg WTF 😦 3.5 km run 20:34 😦 Press Ups 88 Sit Ups 88 🙂 Paddling- none yesterday- but hope to paddle K2 with DD today. Fergathon- 2km 1 PU & 2 SU Other: rather disappointed at the weight this am. Ok had 1 (and only. 1) pint of Carlsberg last night with […]