Apologies for the long absence – exams rather got the better of us recently, but we’re all done now! So with less than two weeks to go, it’s full steam ahead on preparations. We’re sorting out a tent contraption of some sort for the punt to stop us getting soaked by the English summer weather. [...]
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End of exams. And a Piano.
Posted in Equipment, Publicity, Supporters, Training on 09/06/2010 | Leave a Comment »
More about this morning
Posted in Nature, Technique, Training on 03/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Big one this morning – we left at 06:00 to try and get to Byron’s Pool and back before 10:00. Byron’s pool is beyond Grantchester and as far as you can get in a punt from Cambridge (unless you’re into adventure punting, that is). It’s about a 10km round trip, and 2.5km per hour is [...]
The second first of the day!
Posted in Training on 03/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not only is this the first time we have reached Byron’s pool during training, it is the first mobile post. Let’s hope this works so we can give you live updates on the trip!
We won two bikes!
Posted in Equipment, Nature, Training on 30/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Out punting this morning in the mill pond below the rollers – it’s becoming one of our favourite places, I think. For me at least. Toby didn’t fall in today, but he did get his pole stuck. Of course I had to retrieve it for him, and when I hauled it up, we were excited [...]
Filmed by BBC Look East
Posted in Publicity, Training on 28/04/2010 | 1 Comment »
Two nice people from the BBC came along yesterday to film a piece about us training. We mainly spent the afternoon cruising around the mill pond below the rollers getting ‘action shots’, before going up the rollers to do some interviews in the calmer waters. Toby was doing the punting – with the camera there, [...]
Punting, from which End? – redux
Posted in Technique, Training on 26/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
New answer – both Ends. The hottest new punting technique in town is double punting; where a second punter, with a second pole stands at the front and applies some brute force. The punter at the back has to steer a bit more, but we end up going faster, for less effort. The proof, as [...]
Training; first week
Posted in Training on 23/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Friday marks the end of our first week of ‘proper’ training for our trip (as opposed to just punting around and having a nice time). This week has seen 6am starts, blisters and novel outfits, not to mention giving us a chance to reflect on the challenge ahead of us. We’ll need to average almost [...]
Up the Rollers
Posted in Training on 21/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Out training this morning we got up to Grantchester Meadows and back in our two hours, slightly further than yesterday. Just upstream of Queen’s there’s a weir and a mill pond and a handy set of rollers built into a concrete slipway for the convenience of adventurous souls. Once you get onto the higher level [...]
Het up Herons
Posted in Nature, Training on 20/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Toady’s early morning venture saw three herons having a noisy argument over the ownership of a nest high in the trees. Meanwhile, a fourth heron watched on and had a particularly long poo.
Training
Posted in Nature, Technique, Training on 20/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Clearly it’s not fair that only ‘proper sports’ like rowing (*cough* Beckie *cough*) have to get up early to train, so we’ve instituted a strict regime of our own. From now on there’s early morning punt training for two hours, meeting at the punts at 06:30. We’ll be doing this every weekday morning come rain [...]
