Full Steam Ahead........
Hi All, hope you're well.
As Dave mentioned in one of his recent posts I've had some fantastic news and have been offered the chance to train to be a Train Driver, I'm chuffed to bits about this, what an amazing opportunity!
As Dave also mentioned, this does complicate the Kayak plan ever so slightly (as in quite a lot to be fair!). We'd been planning and training towards setting sail in July which was difficult enough however as my driver training starts in May we'll now be setting sail much much earlier and we are now literally a few weeks as opposed to a few months away from getting going!
It's fair to say that this really up's the pace! We've both been out shopping like mad for all of the kit we need (tents, sleeping bags etc) and of course it's going to be a lot colder going now as opposed to July so we've had to factor that in when buying stuff (we've gone for the eskimo range!). We've also had to re-look at tide times for some parts of our route and to stay on schedule it looks like we'll be doing some paddling through the night, could be interesting.
Every spare moment is also now being spent in the boat training like mad! There is no doubt that paddling into the wind in bad weather is hard work but it's getting easier and my arm muscles are generally not on fire every day now! I'm using a stretch of the River Soar near me at Birstall to train and it's exactly one mile in length between two locks, you have seriously no idea how boring this stretch of water is becoming after paddling back and forth up it 10-15 times a session - I've even starting racing a stray tennis ball that I found floating down river in the current, it's like a game of Pooh sticks between me and the ball, I've drawn a face on the ball and called him Wilson......'It's OK Kate, I'll get the door, It's the men in white jackets for me'.
All for now
Adam
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