Walking from Ynyslas to Borth and Back

April 19, 2010
The weather has been fantastic so we have been outside as often as we can be.
Even spotted a kite surfer, although there wasn't much wind, he was out enjoying the weather
 

Celtic Challenge

April 19, 2010
Trained hard again this weekend, and we will continue to train hard this week, as well as doing boat maintenance and all the other preparation that needs to be done prior to the Challenge weekend. We Rowed on Wednesday and Friday night, three times on Saturday and twice on Sunday.

In the middle of all that we went to Dale Sailing on Friday to pick up our new Celtic Longboat. The boat number is 72 but we haven't given it a name yet. The last boat was named by the school childern at Borth Primar...
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Devil's Bridge

April 13, 2010
It was a glorious sunny day, and the MX-5 needed a run, so we put the top down and went to Pontarfynach for a walk at the Devil's Bridge.

We walked down into the gorge and enjoyed the open views as the trees are yet to develop new growth, and all the waterfalls were very full after the recent weather.


Having got down the Jacob's Ladder we took our time going up, enjoying the waterfalls. When we got to the top, we decided we had taken too long to make it a useful workout prior to the Celtic, so ...

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Celtic Challenge

April 12, 2010
Our Rowing training went well this weekend. Borth Rowing Club trained on Friday night, we used a RIB on Saturday afternoon to practice boat transfers, being out on the water for about 3 and a 1/2 hours. We then rowed on Saturday evening with two crews going out to the Bouys by Aberdyfi. On Sunday we had a couple of crews out from 7 am and again in the evening at 7pm. Each row was designed to get everyone rowing hard for an hour.

Sarah and I managed 5 Rows in 3 days and each one was fairly hard...
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Celtic Challenge

April 9, 2010
We got home last night and went for an Indian (yummy)..

Met Kathy in there and talked a lot about the Celtic. We have also spoken to Martyn and the everyone seems really entusiastic :D.

We are having our first row for two and a half months tonight, and intend rowing nearly every day from now until the end of the month.

Sue and Rachel have sorted out Accomodation and transport.

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WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!

April 9, 2010

"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN BEFORE THE 70's.

First, we survived being born to mothers who lived in houses made of asbestos and who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat whilst pregnant.

Having survived that, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints, which we chewed. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, no...


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