Who’s in the boat?
On Wednesday (the more observant amongst you will notice that this has gone back a day due to kinder weather!) myself and 7 other ladies will be rowing around the Isle of Wight, but who are these people crazy enough to subject themselves to 10 to 12 hours of rowing...So am I feeling ready? Hell no!
The countdown has slipped by from months to weeks, and now to days. So with our Isle of Wight row nearly upon us am I feeling ready? Hell no! The surgical spirit for toughening my hands is still sat looking at me in its unopened bottle. I still need to get some...Cookie goes crookie!
With our row around the Isle of Wight coming up and tales of choppy waters my mind has turned to my old friend, seasickness! So I have been digging out my seasickness patches and I dug out an old blog whilst I was at it. This blog was written whilst sailing from San...1 month down 2 months to go..
It’s now just under two months until the big day, and a month has passed since I started taking this training thing seriously. We have been out rowing as a crew and I have been showing my face more regularly at the gym, so how have we been getting on? We have...How many flapjacks can you eat in 10 hours?
Today I learnt that sitting on your bum for 10 hours, eating flapjacks at 30 minutes intervals is not in fact frowned upon, it’s actively encouraged! So that’s just what I will be doing on the 12th of May. There’s only one slight catch; I have to be...Fit in two weeks!
In just under two weeks I will be taking part in my first training sessions to row around the Isle of Wight. On Sunday when I originally intended to write this, I would have had exactly two weeks to get fit. That’s not long, not long at all, but good old Google...A rower short of a picnic!
On the 12th of May six friends and I will be rowing around the Isle of Wight. It will also be a gorgeous sunny day! It’s all a little bit exciting, (when I say a little I quite often mean very!). I have a new challenge to grasp hold of. I’ve got to get...What if you couldn’t fail?
I had put pen to paper and scribbled down my answers to the question ‘What projects would you take on if you knew you couldn’t fail?’