Regatta day photos and such

P&C Draw

After much ducking and diving, lurking and spying, ass-kicking and pistol-whipping, and deflecting of bullets with my wonder-woman style bracelet thingys, I've managed to track down the draw for Saturday and Sunday...

Draw

First up at 11.10am, heat 7, crew: "see you at the bar"

:o)

more mentions of Llandaff from other web spots

This bit of fun is pinched from...
http://www.twrc.rowing.org.uk/books/rr2.htm

Sunday silliness, Monday madness

After a session that included two pieces on sunday afternoon, and a broken foot-plate for the bow-man who is just too strong for any boat (see odds for the latest progress in boat breaking)....

We took to the water on monday night and did another two pieces, no broken boat this time and some good speed (gotta keep the slide sloooow and sit up tall!?!?!)... we did however have a very broken pair of shorts... the stroke-man wrecked his pyjama shorts!!! Should we have a whip round to buy him some lycra replacements???

Lets hope Julian is as impressed as the folks on the bank, one male crew asked if we were in the veterans category and tried to push the boat over when he found out we weren't, hahahaa!!! Looks like we've got'um scared...

Bring it on!!!!!! grrrrrr.... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... pysche!!!!!!

The t-shirts cometh ;o)

We have been on several sessions with the other half of our coaching team... three sessions in all.

First session, learning to steer and the crew getting used to a new seating order.
Second session, good honest yakka, and improving rowing.
Third session, crazy happening... broken runner, broken riggers, misplaced feet, crabs caught and the like... and a session partially coachless in the tank room... all followed by an excellent nosh up at the "Llandaff Bar&Grill".

Coming next... sunday 5pm session, and the joys of the draw for next week... one week till the race days and the t-shirts will have to be made in a hurry ;o)

To please Steve... yes... they are black, haha!!

Llandaff class?!?!?!

Whilst blog browsing Sian bumped into this blog entry from a guy called 'Gurt' at http://gurtlush.blogspot.com/ ...I think this augers well for the P&C regatta ;o) ....
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Monday, July 11, 2005

Do you want to come back to mine?
Whilst Mrs Lush and I were trying to get some shut-eye on Saturday night at LLandaff we were kept awake by some mysterious noises.

On investigation, the highly repetitive creeking noises appeared to be coming from a Port-A-Loo?

Either the pump flush was being seriously over-worked - or there was some less than classy loving going on!

I'm confident it didn't include a CBRC member - the rating was far too high...
posted by Gurt Lush @ 9:52 AM 0 comments
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Ps. CBRC - City of Bristol Rowing Club.
Pps. sorry haven't figured out hyperlinks for the moment (time is precious).

Llandaff echoes to the sound of rhymic grunting...

Once again last night the fantastic four grunted and wailed their way down a 500m piece into the club... I can only imagine what the 4-5 crews stood on the landing stage made of the sight and the sounds!!

As soon as we got off the river the LLandaff reporter (oops, sorry Llandaff webmaster) caught up with us to get our name and mentioned P&C appearing on their website!!! - I'm hoping sound clips are beyond their technology ;o)

We head into the weekends training (with our senior 3 lady coxswain / coach - bring diary milk bars one and all!!) with a potential seat swop, the strokeside two-some are dosee-doe'ing (spelling?)... which puts Steve in Stroke and Tom in the engine room with the hapless Hollins (he of "come on Hollins" fame)... will remain to be seen if Steve can row, stroke, listen to the cox and still manage to scream his lungs up!?!?!..... personally I can't wait for my first "come on Hollins" from Tom and us engine room grafters giving our new stroke man the rush/hurry up when the engine 'gets a slidin'.

Its all flaming good fun... though it has to be said the first man in lyrca still has to get the beers in ;o) T-shirts with names on anyone?? While the cox is away the kids will play, hahaha!!!!

Nice weather for ducks ;o)

It is the best of lovely british weather today, but it is likely that we will still be able to row. Unless the river rises more than 5-7inches to cover the landing stage!?!?! See you all at the club for 5pm, if the weather doesn't improve we could try the tank room before our river slot... have to see what the coach says on that one ;o)

Saturday morning at 9:30am seems to be the consensus from my canvasing of the crew and stand-in coach Sian.

I know that myself and Steve aren't available for the draw on sunday, I think Tom may be able to make it as well as prehaps Ross.

Happy puddle splashing, see ya'll for real big puddle splashing later ;o)