Sat 3am text arrives from "7" asking if I can sub in the HB's. Replied "yes" in a some random fashion and went back to sleep.
4:15 am Sat - Rise & Shine.
Sat 5am - Dropped Chris at BGS shed. Went rowing with HB's.
We rowed up to the tennis centre and then met up with two commercial crews and did three opposed pieces on the way back. Piece 1 OK, 2 crap and 3 was much better. For me though a really good row.
7:30ish - Breakfast at the west end markets.
10:00 - Helped mentor / coach BGS kids rowing. John Cafferkey and me went out coaching some Gr7 kids. That was fun. Cox - excellent. As these kids were novices and because I believe at this stage we just have fun, we did not apply any logic to the seating positions. By accident, we started off with Bow and 2 being good rowers, 3 ok and 4 was not a suitable stroke. Rowed in pairs with bow pair much better than stern pair. We had an extra in the tinnie. Half way through, we swapped around. The really good cox wanted a ride in the tinnie and the not so good stroke wanted to cox so that was easy. Moved 2 to 4 and 1 to 2 and put the new guy in at 1. A bit more rowing in pairs then did a U turn and got them going as all 4. We found that we could get 10 decent strokes before it fell apart. So we just kept doing that. 10 then a rest then do it again. Worked pretty well.
12:30 Megan picked me up in Scott St where I had parked the ute.
Drove to her parents. Had BBQ lunch with them
Chris and I went with Ian and picked up some very heavy pot plants.
5:30 dep Elimbah.
6:30 arr west end. I got out and went to the CRC ball.
I knew a few people there - Wade & his wife from Urban rowing. It took me a while to work out how I knew his wife - I had sat beside her at last years HOTY dinner.
Jodie (BGS teacher & rowing coach), Georgie Gardner (Incredibly fit good rower and all round nice person),
11:00 home in bed
SUNDAY
5:15 rise and shine
5:45 Rowing with GenD - Amazing improvement. Last Fri we had rowed and it was crap. Today's row was by comparison good. We did
1 min on, 1 min off for 15 min.
rest
1 min on, 1 min off for 15 min. Including U turn at the aerial.
rest
A couple of start + 30 strokes.
Set off on a 30 min piece of 1 min on, 1 min off. We had a couple of stops on the way due to city cats and so on. Very welcome. The 1 on 1 off is great because people know that "it is only a minute" before they get a break, they concentrate and keep the accelerator down. By the end of each piece I was exhausted. Today sore thighs.
Breakfast Coffee at Albertos.
Home
Over to Jeff Clark's place for a beer and a welcome chat.
Home.
Everyone out - Chris has gone to see a movie with a yet to be seen gf.
Dan at work (Chompers), Jemma at Ellie's, Megan gone to church.
Went and saw "The Martian". Good move. Well done.
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