Deep and dreamless sleep
Third two hour erg: asanas
Fearless Crone in me
#BanjoNickHaiku (193) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 5/2/25
Third two hour erg: asanas
Fearless Crone in me
#BanjoNickHaiku (193) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 5/2/25
February 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Deep and dreamless sleep
Third two hour erg: asanas
Fearless Crone in me
#BanjoNickHaiku (193) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 5/2/25
Third two hour erg: asanas
Fearless Crone in me
#BanjoNickHaiku (193) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 5/2/25
November 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Another satisfying day rowing up the Thames from about 11.30am to about 7.30pm when I moored in this beautiful spot on the Thames path side a few miles downstream of Marlow.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
April 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Another satisfying day rowing up the Thames from about 11.30am to about 7.30pm when I moored in this beautiful spot on the Thames path side a few miles downstream of Marlow.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
Tender 25 voyage 3. Great to row full load including busking gear... added counterweights to inboard of oar shafts (water bottles) which eases tapping down. On the water for about an hour and a half. #marathonsculling fixed seat cross-training.
April 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tender 25 voyage 3. Great to row full load including busking gear... added counterweights to inboard of oar shafts (water bottles) which eases tapping down. On the water for about an hour and a half. #marathonsculling fixed seat cross-training.
Moored for the night. Surprised by my fitness level, could have rowed for a couple more hours.
#marathonsculling
#marathonsculling
April 29, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Moored for the night. Surprised by my fitness level, could have rowed for a couple more hours.
#marathonsculling
#marathonsculling
The love of my life?
Passing all understanding
Two hour erg week ten
#BanjoNickHaiku (339) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 27/3/25
Passing all understanding
Two hour erg week ten
#BanjoNickHaiku (339) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 27/3/25
March 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The love of my life?
Passing all understanding
Two hour erg week ten
#BanjoNickHaiku (339) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 27/3/25
Passing all understanding
Two hour erg week ten
#BanjoNickHaiku (339) #haikudiary #haiku
#marathonsculling
Maidenhead 27/3/25
Tender 25-4 rowed from Maidenhead Bridge to Cookham Ferry Pub, through Boulters and Cookham locks between 2pm and 7.30pm.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross-training.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross-training.
April 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Tender 25-4 rowed from Maidenhead Bridge to Cookham Ferry Pub, through Boulters and Cookham locks between 2pm and 7.30pm.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross-training.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross-training.
... with arched back and head bent back to see ceiling behind erg. Still resolving to do more between sessions. Also walked 5-6 miles today.
#marathonsculling.
2
#marathonsculling.
2
February 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
... with arched back and head bent back to see ceiling behind erg. Still resolving to do more between sessions. Also walked 5-6 miles today.
#marathonsculling.
2
#marathonsculling.
2
4th weekly two hour erg completed at 1.50pm... worked harder than previously and I'm feeling it now! #marathonsculling four stroke cycle. Sensibly I do not look at score readout. Max drag. #mantrayoga
February 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
4th weekly two hour erg completed at 1.50pm... worked harder than previously and I'm feeling it now! #marathonsculling four stroke cycle. Sensibly I do not look at score readout. Max drag. #mantrayoga
#marathonsculling
Outing 25-63
One and three quarter hours on the water between Benson Lock and Oxford Brookes Boathouse. Three Kingfisher sightings; the first sweeping directly overhead, downstream of Wallingford Old Bridge.
Until turning focussed on four stroke cycle now standard pattern:..1
Outing 25-63
One and three quarter hours on the water between Benson Lock and Oxford Brookes Boathouse. Three Kingfisher sightings; the first sweeping directly overhead, downstream of Wallingford Old Bridge.
Until turning focussed on four stroke cycle now standard pattern:..1
September 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#marathonsculling
Outing 25-63
One and three quarter hours on the water between Benson Lock and Oxford Brookes Boathouse. Three Kingfisher sightings; the first sweeping directly overhead, downstream of Wallingford Old Bridge.
Until turning focussed on four stroke cycle now standard pattern:..1
Outing 25-63
One and three quarter hours on the water between Benson Lock and Oxford Brookes Boathouse. Three Kingfisher sightings; the first sweeping directly overhead, downstream of Wallingford Old Bridge.
Until turning focussed on four stroke cycle now standard pattern:..1
No doubt in my mind that the highlight of this year's Thames row so far was being sculled by Tim Crooks in Tender.
Tim's exceptional 3 hours and 29 minutes record in the Lincoln to Boston Marathon (31 miles) in 1978 still stands.
#marathonsculling #thames
Tim's exceptional 3 hours and 29 minutes record in the Lincoln to Boston Marathon (31 miles) in 1978 still stands.
#marathonsculling #thames
May 31, 2026 at 5:13 PM
No doubt in my mind that the highlight of this year's Thames row so far was being sculled by Tim Crooks in Tender.
Tim's exceptional 3 hours and 29 minutes record in the Lincoln to Boston Marathon (31 miles) in 1978 still stands.
#marathonsculling #thames
Tim's exceptional 3 hours and 29 minutes record in the Lincoln to Boston Marathon (31 miles) in 1978 still stands.
#marathonsculling #thames
I've rebuilt augmented oars to include a cleaver expansion to blade area. Looking forward to some serious Scully Boat Club Thames miles with fixed seat before buying single scull in a month or so. Scully Boat Club colours: silver and black...3
#marathonsculling
#marathonsculling
April 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I've rebuilt augmented oars to include a cleaver expansion to blade area. Looking forward to some serious Scully Boat Club Thames miles with fixed seat before buying single scull in a month or so. Scully Boat Club colours: silver and black...3
#marathonsculling
#marathonsculling
#marathonsculling great to be back on the water again after nearly 3 weeks. Tender/Lily 25 Outing 56 was just over 1.5 hours between Cleeve Lock and the Wallingford Road Bridge in Coastal Lily. Getting used to feathering after rowing fixed seat Tender. Rowed legs only 3/4 strokes much of the outing.
July 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#marathonsculling great to be back on the water again after nearly 3 weeks. Tender/Lily 25 Outing 56 was just over 1.5 hours between Cleeve Lock and the Wallingford Road Bridge in Coastal Lily. Getting used to feathering after rowing fixed seat Tender. Rowed legs only 3/4 strokes much of the outing.
Tender 25-10 #marathonsculling cross-training
Cleared Shiplake and Sonning Locks today between casting off at 10.45am and mooring at 6.45pm. Aprox 5.5 hours of rowing, the rest of the time spent writing, eating, playing my guitar...and pausing in silent wonder, immersed in beautiful #Thames nature.
Cleared Shiplake and Sonning Locks today between casting off at 10.45am and mooring at 6.45pm. Aprox 5.5 hours of rowing, the rest of the time spent writing, eating, playing my guitar...and pausing in silent wonder, immersed in beautiful #Thames nature.
April 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Tender 25-10 #marathonsculling cross-training
Cleared Shiplake and Sonning Locks today between casting off at 10.45am and mooring at 6.45pm. Aprox 5.5 hours of rowing, the rest of the time spent writing, eating, playing my guitar...and pausing in silent wonder, immersed in beautiful #Thames nature.
Cleared Shiplake and Sonning Locks today between casting off at 10.45am and mooring at 6.45pm. Aprox 5.5 hours of rowing, the rest of the time spent writing, eating, playing my guitar...and pausing in silent wonder, immersed in beautiful #Thames nature.
If I was in charge of #BritishRowing or @CUBCsquad I would hire @imogendaisyg as team medic and encourage her to train for #marathonsculling challenges as a pioneer. Her body type is spot on for marathon sculling. Long arms and low centre of gravity. Weight to speed ratio vg. 1/2
November 12, 2024 at 3:23 PM
If I was in charge of #BritishRowing or @CUBCsquad I would hire @imogendaisyg as team medic and encourage her to train for #marathonsculling challenges as a pioneer. Her body type is spot on for marathon sculling. Long arms and low centre of gravity. Weight to speed ratio vg. 1/2
This year's Thames row turning point was further upstream of Lechlade than last year with Fallen Willow Bridge (as named it) having been removed. This is Tender's Beach, just downstream of as far as I could go in Tender with Lily hitched to her stern.
#marathonsculling #cross-training #thames
#marathonsculling #cross-training #thames
August 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
This year's Thames row turning point was further upstream of Lechlade than last year with Fallen Willow Bridge (as named it) having been removed. This is Tender's Beach, just downstream of as far as I could go in Tender with Lily hitched to her stern.
#marathonsculling #cross-training #thames
#marathonsculling #cross-training #thames
August 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
and well suited to carrying wild camping gear and provisions over ultra marathon distances.
4/4
#thames #marathonsculling
4/4
#thames #marathonsculling
July 25, 2026 at 4:06 AM
and well suited to carrying wild camping gear and provisions over ultra marathon distances.
4/4
#thames #marathonsculling
4/4
#thames #marathonsculling
Tim Crooks : Recently, I was told that my record (3 hours 29 mins, 1978) still stood, so no tailwinds at Boston in September please.
Rowing poet Crooks
Racy reports in blank verse
Champion Sculler
#marathonsculling
Rowing poet Crooks
Racy reports in blank verse
Champion Sculler
#marathonsculling
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Tim Crooks : Recently, I was told that my record (3 hours 29 mins, 1978) still stood, so no tailwinds at Boston in September please.
Rowing poet Crooks
Racy reports in blank verse
Champion Sculler
#marathonsculling
Rowing poet Crooks
Racy reports in blank verse
Champion Sculler
#marathonsculling
#marathonsculling
Satisfying outing in Lily today: down to Sheridan Marina with a new heavy 12 volt marine battery on her stern section on the way back into headwind breeze and first signs of noticeable flow on the river this year. Lily's bow was high with the extra weight...1
Satisfying outing in Lily today: down to Sheridan Marina with a new heavy 12 volt marine battery on her stern section on the way back into headwind breeze and first signs of noticeable flow on the river this year. Lily's bow was high with the extra weight...1
October 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#marathonsculling
Satisfying outing in Lily today: down to Sheridan Marina with a new heavy 12 volt marine battery on her stern section on the way back into headwind breeze and first signs of noticeable flow on the river this year. Lily's bow was high with the extra weight...1
Satisfying outing in Lily today: down to Sheridan Marina with a new heavy 12 volt marine battery on her stern section on the way back into headwind breeze and first signs of noticeable flow on the river this year. Lily's bow was high with the extra weight...1
#marathonsculling outing 25-59.
Sculled Lily lock to lock (13 miles, Benson to Cleeve). Highlights were three Kingfisher sightings, number 64 since late April was a prolonged still life before witnessing successful fish-catching dive; and the closest I have ever been to a Red Kite...1
Sculled Lily lock to lock (13 miles, Benson to Cleeve). Highlights were three Kingfisher sightings, number 64 since late April was a prolonged still life before witnessing successful fish-catching dive; and the closest I have ever been to a Red Kite...1
August 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#marathonsculling outing 25-59.
Sculled Lily lock to lock (13 miles, Benson to Cleeve). Highlights were three Kingfisher sightings, number 64 since late April was a prolonged still life before witnessing successful fish-catching dive; and the closest I have ever been to a Red Kite...1
Sculled Lily lock to lock (13 miles, Benson to Cleeve). Highlights were three Kingfisher sightings, number 64 since late April was a prolonged still life before witnessing successful fish-catching dive; and the closest I have ever been to a Red Kite...1
June 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Tender 25-7
#marathonsculling cross-training
Rowed for aprox 4 1/2 hours through Hambledon Lock to this spot with view of Temple Island close to start line of the famous Henley Royal Regatta Course. Designed by James Wyatt, completed in 1771. The nymph beneath the cupola was a later addition.
#marathonsculling cross-training
Rowed for aprox 4 1/2 hours through Hambledon Lock to this spot with view of Temple Island close to start line of the famous Henley Royal Regatta Course. Designed by James Wyatt, completed in 1771. The nymph beneath the cupola was a later addition.
April 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Tender 25-7
#marathonsculling cross-training
Rowed for aprox 4 1/2 hours through Hambledon Lock to this spot with view of Temple Island close to start line of the famous Henley Royal Regatta Course. Designed by James Wyatt, completed in 1771. The nymph beneath the cupola was a later addition.
#marathonsculling cross-training
Rowed for aprox 4 1/2 hours through Hambledon Lock to this spot with view of Temple Island close to start line of the famous Henley Royal Regatta Course. Designed by James Wyatt, completed in 1771. The nymph beneath the cupola was a later addition.
Tender 25-7
Progress rowing Tender through Hurley Lock and past the site of Medmenham Abbey to secluded island mooring a couple of miles downstream of Henley-on-Thames was wind assisted...easier going.
Aprox 3 1/2 hours rowing. Slow morning. 4pm start.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
Progress rowing Tender through Hurley Lock and past the site of Medmenham Abbey to secluded island mooring a couple of miles downstream of Henley-on-Thames was wind assisted...easier going.
Aprox 3 1/2 hours rowing. Slow morning. 4pm start.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
April 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Tender 25-7
Progress rowing Tender through Hurley Lock and past the site of Medmenham Abbey to secluded island mooring a couple of miles downstream of Henley-on-Thames was wind assisted...easier going.
Aprox 3 1/2 hours rowing. Slow morning. 4pm start.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.
Progress rowing Tender through Hurley Lock and past the site of Medmenham Abbey to secluded island mooring a couple of miles downstream of Henley-on-Thames was wind assisted...easier going.
Aprox 3 1/2 hours rowing. Slow morning. 4pm start.
#marathonsculling fixed seat cross training.