Sometimes I wonder over the purpose of a blog. Not whether I should write one or not, but what I should write. There were times, early on, where I just wrote about what I was upto etc etc. Howeer, I then felt it should be more intellectual than that; an attempt at a profound discussion over something or t’other. Only problem with that was, it easily turned in to a rant and I also never added blog entries becase I …
Month: August 2009
I have just started Reading ‘The Amateurs’ by David Halberstam (I’m on page 13!) and he quotes an American single sculler named Tiff Wood.åÊ “You could be on a championship eight which won all it’s races, but you still might only be the fiftieth-best oarsman in the country. åÊBut the single sculler is the beat, and everyone in the world of rowing knows it.” Anyway, this immediatey jumped out at me because I’m not sure it’s true. åÊPerhaps that is …
The summer rowing season has finally come to a close. This weekend was Peterborough regatta and I was racing yesterday. After our win at St Neots (and Ruth and I then winning at Sudbury) my 4 (Ruth, Lou, Claire and I wig Sarah coxing) had to race IM2. We sailed through the semi which was awesome. Lou, Claire and I then had to race in the 8 and we were so close-only a canvas off the winners :(. However, we …
