4th Official (& Final) Training Day - 5th April

 

Day 4 of kayaking training and we set off to tackle another epic day of paddling. We planned to do 15 miles and that's exactly what we did, even if we did finish at 7:30pm at night! 

However, it wasn't all that bad as we didn't just have one pub stop but two. Kayaking up the river was tough as we battled against a strong river current and a headwind. Even people out for a leisurely stroll were overtaking us! On the positive side at least it was a good workout. 

Sophie was back on form after her river plunge in midweek. Tom entertained many of the hours by making up quizzes including a round on "Joe Clarke", "superheroes" and "Bridges of the world" and we were even given a special project designing a pub menu. Drama was made by the Bromleys being difficult in the pub requesting extra ramakins of tuna and Rob was given the new nick name of The Neanderthal Monkey for his general primitive slightly odd behaviour. A long day but lots of fun had by all!

Daily stats:

Total trip time: 8 hours
Total time on river: 6 hours
Total time in pub: 2 hours

Unfortunately the 1:3 hour pub to river ratio will not be possible on the actual challenge!