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Friday, September 11, 2026

Brown Snake Plan

Hi Guys,
Info for the Brown Snake
TIMING
5am meet at West End Park Cafe.
Frank + TBA will drive up. 
As soon as we have a car full, we will drive up and that first car load will unstrap the boat and move the oars down closer to the ramp. 

RACE TIME
We are 7:06:40
Bow number 78
Right after Vikings
Tannahill bringing the bow numbers. 

PAY MADDIE
to her EMAIL address (not her mobile - that goes to a different account)
Maddie.brannelly@icloud.com



WARM UP
We have about an hour on the water. 
Multiple objectives of getting our heart rates up....
And learning to row at a "high" (for us) rate. 
During the warm up, we will include some rate builds
20 22 24
20 22 24 26
20 22 24 26 28
20 22 24 26 28 30

RACE PLAN
In the context that this is a crew of varying abilities and fitness levels and is the start of the build to the Yarra, I'd like to have a restrained race plan rather than the go out hard and hang on approach. 

RACE 1 - 1500m
Pre start build like the warm up going up by 2spm every 10.
18 20 22 24 
Race at 24 to 26.
BREAK 1 very light ~18spm
RACE 2 - 1000m
As we approach the start, build to 26 to 28.
BREAK 2- this is the longer break. Personally I don't want to get cold. 
RACE 3 - 2k
Build to 26.
After 1 k if the power is on and the boat is sitting up,  push it to 28 possibly 30.
BREAK 3 - is very short. 
Drop to light work for 40 seconds. 
RACE 4 - 500m
Then back up to 28 and take it up to 30+.
We can go ballistic.


Fri Pre Brown Snake

FRIDAY
4:00am Frank & Richard arrive Terrace shed and unload 2 trestles, pegs and straps. 
4:15am Sarah collects FT & RR peter row and Marcus from Terrace shed. Drives to west end. 
4:30 everyone at West end as usual. 
4:55 Departed West end 
6:33 ish arrived Terrace shed
7:05 arrived back at West End.


Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Park Run with Lewis

Lewis and Clare are in Town on their way south. Friday night they came to dinner. 

Saturday Lewis met Phoebe and me at Rocks Riverside Park Run. Phoebe took mags leaving me free to run. Lewis and I 

Monday, September 7, 2026

Mt Cootha Dinner

Phoebe, Fletch and myself had a BBQ at Gold Mine Picnic area.

I dropped into woolies and picked up some premade hamburger patties.  Phoebe gathered salad items along with a cutting board and knife. 

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Fathers Day

Fathers Day 
5am rise
6am 5k erg
7am supervised fathers and children having a fathers day row. 
8:30 met the Brisbane kids on the pontoon and we hopped into a quad.  A light row.  The boat was rigged very low.  The water was smooth and flat. The sun was warm.  It was so nice being together. 







Friday, September 4, 2026

My First 3D Design

 Ha the modern world.

I sketched this and uploaded it to chatgpt and it returned me:  
STL for 3D printing
STEP model
Editable OpenSCAD model 

 
These were the written instructions:
 

 Can you do a 3D design so that I can 3D print this?
 
 It's round 25mm long. 
There's a hole through the middle that is 7.8mm diamter for 10mm depth and then reduces to 6.4mm for the rest. There's two slots at one end 4mm wide and 6mm long. There are two holes at 20mm from one end that I'll drill out to put in a grub screw
 


 

Lamb Roas V4

4-92026
1.4kg
1.3kg
1.5kg
1.5kg
Total 5.7kg
Compare previous
https://thomsoneu.blogspot.com/2023/09/roast-lamb-v3-28kg.html?m=1
4.9kg
Lamb roasts
Pumpkin half
Potatoe x 10
Onions x 6 
Cauliflower x 1
Brocoli 
Milk
Butter
Red wine
-Gravox 
Ginger beer box of small bottles. 
Spark waters
Cream
Ice cream


4:45 potatoes in oven @200 
4:25 puts in the onion and pumpkin
Turns spuds.
Oven up  to 240