What are the conditions going to be like?

We went out for a brilliant paddle yesterday from Marlow down to Sunbury, which was completed in just a few minutes over 4 hours. This is very fast for us, and down to the fact that the river was running very fast indeed.

We are expecting more rain over the next two days and this could make for a very full Thames indeed. Apparently the DW race marshalls are meeting up during the week to decide whether they will let the race run on the Thames during the night, or whether they will make us delay for 12 hours and run the Canal section at night and the Thames during the daylight.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I really hope they keep it the way it is. The Thames is full, but it's not too dangerous at the moment. That said, I hadn't already paddled 50 odd miles before getting onto the river.

Will keep things posted.

Less than a month to go

So Big and I have had a busy time over the Winter months trying to get ourselves as fit as possible to undertake the challenge.

We have so far competed in three of the warm-up races in the Waterside series, although the longest one of these so far is still only at 24 mile on the canal.

I have added in the...Where are we? gadget onto this web page which should update whenever we are paddling. We'll try it out later tonight.

I will provide more regular updates on the run up!