Crew Night at the Club

A quick update tonight. As the title suggests, it was crew night at the club tonight. This means all the paddlers get matched up according to speed, so faster with slower, etc to balance things out. So both of us were split up tonight, I was paired with the torpedo that is Phil and Enda with equally rapid paddler, Matt.

All I knew of tonight's session was that was 'Races to Places' basically start at some point then race to another named point. Each 'Race' ranged from a few hundred metres up to maybe3/4 mile????  Not sure but someone from the club will probably correct me.

It was quite fun actually, getting the old Condor moving at that pace was quite a shock to it I think :o) lol. Was a really competitive night though and pretty well balanced, even though some of the 'Speedy Gonzales' paddlers of the club were in K1s who tended to be the fastest boats on the night. Apparently some rather large wash waves were being created, mostly by the condors according to a couple of the guys. I can certainly vouch for the deck of the boat I was in, nearly being under water at one point, which caused a bit of a 'Woah! What was that?' from me.

Funniest moment of the night was right at the end, I went to get out of the boat and didn't realise my left leg was completely numb, so as I got out, on my left, the leg kept giving way giving the impression of a bit of an Elvis leg. Enda wondered where the sniper was :o) lol. I gave up and just knelt down in the water, cooled me down nicely.

That's it for now, Enda's out for an 8 miler tomorrow and I'll be getting in a long erg at home