Thursday 21st

The official training period is on this Saturday, which means the water should be at race level. At the moment the water fluctuates: last few days it's been higher than race levels, so while we've all got out amongst it we haven't done as much paddling as we would have liked. The high level is fun but it's also very draining, and while you go roughly the same lines, the rocks are underwater so we're not really fine tuning our lines. I did one run yesterday, Foo and Stew backed up with a PM run so I got some piccys. Had another boat rescue yesterday. Radka from the British team swam in 'Le Vignes' and her boat travelled a long way, past the race finish, the get out and past a rafting company's base. Two guys there rescued it and I helped them bash through thorns, scrub, across fences, railways and private property to get it back. It was a good outcome as paddler, boat and paddle were all fine (which is not usually the case when a boat travels a kilometre by itself down grade 3/4 whitewater!) Hamish should be home any moment, so I'll be having a great big Club Penguin session see yas!