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We’re now 5 dinners and 10 breakfasts (if you include 2nd breakfasts) into the pre-world championship training camp – I think that’s just about enough to fully get over the +12h time difference and 36 hour journey from door to door. I shouldn’t really whinge about the length of the journey. Air New Zealand (and this isn’t a cheap plug) couldn’t have looked after us any better. Most of the team slept for about 24 of those 36 hours and the organisation from the team and airways staff got us checked into the hotel in Hamilton in the best possible shape.
So far we’ve done more sessions than we’ve had cooked breakfasts and that’s always a good ratio to help the boat speed (and prevent us from getting chubby). The first thing to really note is that it can be windy here. Very windy. For prolonged periods too, with bonus gusts, loads of crew washes and the lake is large enough to really let the waves build up. It makes for some really fun rowing conditions! Long may it continue. So the boat’s going well, the team’s in good spirits and shape so we took a bit of time out yesterday to visit a Maori village after training. We learned that they have a very strict ritual and routine when greeting guests and that they sell really good ice-cream. I’ll post photos as soon as I can but there are some internet issues that are slowing the pics down. Watch this space |
