This really is FAST TRACK

I haven't written for a few days mainly because we were moved to a hotel while some French rowers took over Holme Pirrepont and also because our new GB boats are so unstable that our coach took away our time off and replaced them with extra water sessions - a few of the girls weren't happy but we got on with it!

Yesterday we had lots of testing one being another 4k run where I took 50 seconds off, another part of it was some timed pieces in our twitchy boats but it was more who can stay in there boat for the whole 500 meters. It was quite funny as a few of us would line up on the start, the coach would say 'go' then as we paddled down the course you would hear a huge splash and you knew there was a woman down. At one point one of the girls fell out on the start line, the safety launch sped over with urgency, knocking 2 others over with the wash, so there was now no one on the start line to actually compete. The girl in question threw some abuse at the man on the safety launch and said she didn't need any help and if it wasn't for him she wouldn't be in the water in the first place. I managed to do two of the timed pieces, but fell in on the way up to the start line by getting caught in masses of weed.

Back in lovely Somerset now for some much needed rest . . . but that didn't last too long as I just had to go for a run.

Resting HR has gone down by 10 beats in just two weeks, this really is fast track!