January Jottings

Another month draws to an end, and I realise I have more training behind me than I have in front of me… Actually not that reassuring! The numbers for January are in: Paddled: 104.5km 🙂 Portages: 52 🙂 Run: 21.5km 🙂 Yoga: 105mins 😦 Other: 120mins 🙂 Improvements in all aspects except the yoga – […]

Garmin vs Tomtom…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the intrepid buccaneers… sessions have been piled on with running, paddling, portaging and rowing ergo being consistently completed. It’s been going well, a new venue visited in the shape of the River Tweed with Gilbert, Lizelle, Kenny and Kevin… Great sessions on the loch and some bottom […]

Hurray for Bosoms!

Dirty D and her search for the holy grail of the ultimate DW sports bra took a new and unexpected turn yesterday….. On finishing her paddle she reached into the cosy sanctuary of her buoyancy aid expecting to find: Only to be a little worried to find: Bugger! And she was freezing with fingers that […]

Dirty D’s Bottom Drag…

A wee paddle before work this morning – keeping the momentum going, paddle through the hands and all that – actually paddle needs to go through the hands as they are currently lovely and soft after the skiing… The pre-hard skin blisters are forming nicely! As previously mentioned there are some fairly major works currently […]

Like Riding a Bike..

Only colder, wetter and much more like paddling… After the best part of a month out of the boat Dirty D was a little apprehensive about getting back onto the loch – whilst things with the new boat had been improving prior to the festive break they were far from the finished article and most […]

Old Clothes and Porridge…

  Back to reality with a bump… Left glorious Slovakia in -16C and sunshine to return to +9C smirry rain – it’s wasn’t nice!! But at least it’s had the decency to get worse… Our usual Wednesday mid week paddle cancelled due to yellow warning for wind (and a lesser concern for us, snow). With the […]

Half Broken!

Training camp is going really well. First three days saw us enjoying unbroken sunshine and fabulous snow conditions….. a new year brought winds, sub zero temperatures and fresh snow, all good stuff!! Dirty D is still very much at the enthusiastic weekend warrior end of the cross country skiing ability chart but it doesn’t matter, […]