So, I was disappointed that we got knocked out in our first round at Henley Royal Regatta a couple weeks ago. My reluctance to write this post stems from that disappointment. So, I will not dwell on the result, only to say I thought we could have had our racing heads on a little more securely but ultimately we did row technically well. We had a close race with the New Zealand crew, who were then beaten by Australia by 1/3 of a length who went on to win overall. The draw really is luck of the draw, and unfortunately we had some tough competition in the first round, but that is how it goes at Henley!
Now we are back into winter style training whilst we prepare for Europeans in 2+ months. No regatta racing between now and then, just internal racing against other GB European bound boats of different boat types.
Time to get the head down!
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Henley Royal Regatta
Racing begins for us tomorrow at 12.15! Racing for the Princess Grace challenge cup. Our first round:
Leander v. Waiariki, Zew Zealand.
Bring it on!!
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Henley Women's Regatta 2012
This weekend held the final Rowing World Cup of 2012, in Munich. The A finals were shown on the BBC on Sunday and once again the GB team put in a solid performance at the regatta. The last big show down before the Olympics! I was so chuffed for the women's pair who put in a stellar performance and comfortably beat New Zealand, last years World Champions. Also the women's eight had a fab last 500m to clinch the bronze medal.
The team have all been collecting their Olympic kit up in Loughborough over the past couple days. Rumour is they have around 70kgs of kit!
Ex housemate, friend and stroke of the GB women's 8+ Victoria Thornley (above right) has been very organised and despite only collecting it today; already unpacked and named all her kit (above left)!
So whilst the big shots were racing the world's best in Munich, back at home the remainder of the Leander girls were racing on home turf at Henley Women's Regatta. Hats off to the regatta organisers for keeping the regatta running so smoothly. Conditions were tricky due to the heavy rain in the run up to the regatta which caused a very fast stream. The race course runs against the stream, and with a very strong headwind to contend with as well there was no chance for record times this year!
Despite this everybody battled through the conditions as best they could and it was a successful weekend, cementing the regatta's 25th anniversary.
I raced the elite quad and elite double. The double was the last chance we had to race another double side by side before the European Championships in September (pending selection) and the quad was the first run out for a combination we will row in for Henley Royal Regatta next week. Our quad line up is Tina and me, and Rachel Gamble-Flint and Sarah Cowburn who raced a double at the U23 World Rowing Championships last year.
Because of how the draw worked out, Tina and I had four races on Sunday! Henley Women's Regatta (HWR) is only a 1500m course, considerably shorter than our usual 2km race length. However, rowing against a very fast stream and strong headwind meant that the times were closer to times we would expect from racing 2k, and on Saturday when the wind was at its strongest, much slower than normal 2k times! Our legs were very tired by the time we got to the last race, the doubles final.
Our semi finals were not too taxing in either boat, although we had poor starts in both of them and had a little ground to make up. Our finals were both harder races although we still won by healthy margins; 1 1/3 lengths in the 4x and 3 2/3 of a length in the 2x. It was great to assert our dominance in this regatta, and racing in the Elite category we met international crews in both events.
The women's four, made up of half Leander, half Imperial also won their event, Elite coxless fours.
Sir Steve Redgrave was there for the prizegiving...
Follow me on twitter at twitter.com/ericabodman to get more up to date, by the minute, snippets!
Some more photos from the regatta:
The team have all been collecting their Olympic kit up in Loughborough over the past couple days. Rumour is they have around 70kgs of kit!
Ex housemate, friend and stroke of the GB women's 8+ Victoria Thornley (above right) has been very organised and despite only collecting it today; already unpacked and named all her kit (above left)!
Henley Women's Regatta 2012
So whilst the big shots were racing the world's best in Munich, back at home the remainder of the Leander girls were racing on home turf at Henley Women's Regatta. Hats off to the regatta organisers for keeping the regatta running so smoothly. Conditions were tricky due to the heavy rain in the run up to the regatta which caused a very fast stream. The race course runs against the stream, and with a very strong headwind to contend with as well there was no chance for record times this year!
Despite this everybody battled through the conditions as best they could and it was a successful weekend, cementing the regatta's 25th anniversary.
I raced the elite quad and elite double. The double was the last chance we had to race another double side by side before the European Championships in September (pending selection) and the quad was the first run out for a combination we will row in for Henley Royal Regatta next week. Our quad line up is Tina and me, and Rachel Gamble-Flint and Sarah Cowburn who raced a double at the U23 World Rowing Championships last year.
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| This is a shot early on in the race of our Leander quad, on the right in the white boat, racing Vesper USA |
Our semi finals were not too taxing in either boat, although we had poor starts in both of them and had a little ground to make up. Our finals were both harder races although we still won by healthy margins; 1 1/3 lengths in the 4x and 3 2/3 of a length in the 2x. It was great to assert our dominance in this regatta, and racing in the Elite category we met international crews in both events.
The women's four, made up of half Leander, half Imperial also won their event, Elite coxless fours.
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| Leander Ladies having fun with the silverware. Leander's Henley Women's Regatta winners in the Elite categories From L-R: Rachel Gamble-Flint (4x), Monica Relph (4-), Tina Stiller (2x,4x) Erica Bodman (2x,4x), Sarah Cowburn (4x), Victoria Meyer-Laker (4-) |
Sir Steve Redgrave was there for the prizegiving...
And this is a shot of our double winning the final against Rowing Ireland. We are on the left. Photo taken from the umpires launch...
Now we will be concentrating on the quad for the next 10 days to get us up to speed for the big event: Henley Royal Regatta! This is a massive event in the social and rowing calendar, and a great opportunity for us in Olympic year to have a shot at winning whilst the Olympic crews are away preparing for the 2012 Games.
Follow me on twitter at twitter.com/ericabodman to get more up to date, by the minute, snippets!
Some more photos from the regatta:
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| Waiting to be checked by a marshall before the semi final of 4x |
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| Racing the final of the 4x |
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| Paddling to the start of the semi final, thank you to Buff and Headsweats! |
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| Off the start of the 2x Final |
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| Happy winners of Elite quad. L-R Tina Stiller, Erica Bodman, Rachel Gamble-Flint, Sarah Cowburn |
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Holland Beker 2012
Tina and I started off our racing season this weekend on the Bosbaan in Amsterdam, at the Holland Beker regatta. We had a day and a half of training on the lake before racing began, navigating the sea-like conditions; strong winds and rain. I began to wonder if we had signed up for coastal rowing by mistake! By the time racing began the wind had calmed a little, and although still strong it was a tail wind which I certainly feel is preferable. Faster time = less pain!
On the first day we hired yellow tourist bikes to get down to the lake for training. We struggled to get to grips with riding on the right hand side, back pedalling to brake and simultaneously read the map the right way up but despite a few hairy moments, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The Dutch were very considerate of us on the whole, I think the tourist bikes are painted yellow as a warning!
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On Friday we went for two paddles in the morning and then had the afternoon off to relax. I found a lovely park near our hotel which I went for a walk through, giving me a chance to clear my head and go through the race calls. We had predominantly spent the season up till now with the order of the boat being me at stroke and Tina at bow. This meant that Tina was making the race calls, but to check that this was the correct order for us, long term, we decided to race the Holland Beker in one order Saturday, and reversed on Sunday. I was put at bow for the Saturday race, and being unused to making the calls I was a little worried about my ability to remember them in the heat of the race! The peace in the park provided the perfect opportunity to visualise the race in my head.
We had a straight final both days, Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we had a five boat final, with The Czech Olympic double, the Antosova sisters (they are a long established boat who got bronze at the first world cup this year), a Swedish club double, a Swiss club double, and a Japanese club double. We found ourselves in a bit of a void during the race, way behind the Antosova sisters but a way ahead of the club boats too. We finished 16 secs behind the Czech and almost 10 seconds ahead of the Swiss. Results can be seen here.
On the Sunday we had mostly the same line up, but with the Dutch national double and instead of the Japanese club double we had an Indonesian club double. The Dutch double was newly qualified for the London 2012 Olympics only two and a half weeks earlier at the Olympic Qualifiying Regatta in Lucerne. We were hoping to provide the Dutch with some competition, as they are not as fast as the Czech girls. We had switched back to our preferred order in the boat for the Sunday race and were feeling confident.
The first couple strokes got us away nicely, and then out of the blue my right blade flew out of my hand! It must have clipped some water, and in my attempt to be loose on the handles I lost my grip on it. I kept moving, all the while fumbling for my right blade and hoping it wouldn't catch the water again and cause a boat stopping crab! Luckily I managed to get a hold of it again, I had missed two strokes but by keeping moving I was able to slot straight back into our rhythm. Tina was fantastic, kept completely silent and stress free, and let me gather myself again before slipping seamlessly back into our race plan. We lost half a length for this error but still made it to the 500m only 0.7seconds behind the Dutch.
We were four lanes away from the Dutch which made the battle a little more diluted than had we been in neighbouring lanes, but Tina kept an eye on their boat and we fought our way down the course, settling onto a good rhythm. At the 1km, half way mark, we were 0.9 seconds behind the Dutch and by 1500m (500m to go) we had reduced the gap to 0.65seconds. In our push for the line we drew them in to within half a length of us, but their sprint finish was much more impressive than ours, putting them 3.4 seconds ahead of us overall. We were thrilled with our performance, it was a personal best time for us in the double and the first bit of side by side racing we have done with a women's double! Our finish is one area which we have not really worked on yet and feel that a lot more speed can come from here. Results here
It was really exciting to be pushing a double who have just qualified for the Olympics so close to the line, and we did not even have our perfect race! We were also 4 seconds closer to the Czech on Sunday.
Here is a video of our race, courtesy of Tina's parents. Great footage from the moving grandstand. We are the yellow boat closest to the camera. If you can't see it here, follow the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2i0My6u4i0
We are now concentrating on a quad for the next three weeks, as we race the double and quad at Women's Henley this weekend, and the quad at Henley Royal Regatta two weeks later.
Support:
Finally the sun came out in Amsterdam, giving us a chance to use our Sun Sense products. Leander Club helped us towards the cost of the weekend and we both wore our 110% play harder compression leggings to help us recover better from the Saturday race, for Sunday. We raced in our Headsweats caps and warmed up in our Buff kit. Our Hunter wellies were not taken for fear they might walk off the landing stage of their own accord! However we used our Faith in Nature products all weekend.
On the first day we hired yellow tourist bikes to get down to the lake for training. We struggled to get to grips with riding on the right hand side, back pedalling to brake and simultaneously read the map the right way up but despite a few hairy moments, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The Dutch were very considerate of us on the whole, I think the tourist bikes are painted yellow as a warning!
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We had a straight final both days, Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we had a five boat final, with The Czech Olympic double, the Antosova sisters (they are a long established boat who got bronze at the first world cup this year), a Swedish club double, a Swiss club double, and a Japanese club double. We found ourselves in a bit of a void during the race, way behind the Antosova sisters but a way ahead of the club boats too. We finished 16 secs behind the Czech and almost 10 seconds ahead of the Swiss. Results can be seen here.
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| Bridge at 500m |
On the Sunday we had mostly the same line up, but with the Dutch national double and instead of the Japanese club double we had an Indonesian club double. The Dutch double was newly qualified for the London 2012 Olympics only two and a half weeks earlier at the Olympic Qualifiying Regatta in Lucerne. We were hoping to provide the Dutch with some competition, as they are not as fast as the Czech girls. We had switched back to our preferred order in the boat for the Sunday race and were feeling confident.
The first couple strokes got us away nicely, and then out of the blue my right blade flew out of my hand! It must have clipped some water, and in my attempt to be loose on the handles I lost my grip on it. I kept moving, all the while fumbling for my right blade and hoping it wouldn't catch the water again and cause a boat stopping crab! Luckily I managed to get a hold of it again, I had missed two strokes but by keeping moving I was able to slot straight back into our rhythm. Tina was fantastic, kept completely silent and stress free, and let me gather myself again before slipping seamlessly back into our race plan. We lost half a length for this error but still made it to the 500m only 0.7seconds behind the Dutch.
We were four lanes away from the Dutch which made the battle a little more diluted than had we been in neighbouring lanes, but Tina kept an eye on their boat and we fought our way down the course, settling onto a good rhythm. At the 1km, half way mark, we were 0.9 seconds behind the Dutch and by 1500m (500m to go) we had reduced the gap to 0.65seconds. In our push for the line we drew them in to within half a length of us, but their sprint finish was much more impressive than ours, putting them 3.4 seconds ahead of us overall. We were thrilled with our performance, it was a personal best time for us in the double and the first bit of side by side racing we have done with a women's double! Our finish is one area which we have not really worked on yet and feel that a lot more speed can come from here. Results here
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| Happy double post racing! |
It was really exciting to be pushing a double who have just qualified for the Olympics so close to the line, and we did not even have our perfect race! We were also 4 seconds closer to the Czech on Sunday.
Here is a video of our race, courtesy of Tina's parents. Great footage from the moving grandstand. We are the yellow boat closest to the camera. If you can't see it here, follow the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2i0My6u4i0
We are now concentrating on a quad for the next three weeks, as we race the double and quad at Women's Henley this weekend, and the quad at Henley Royal Regatta two weeks later.
Support:
Finally the sun came out in Amsterdam, giving us a chance to use our Sun Sense products. Leander Club helped us towards the cost of the weekend and we both wore our 110% play harder compression leggings to help us recover better from the Saturday race, for Sunday. We raced in our Headsweats caps and warmed up in our Buff kit. Our Hunter wellies were not taken for fear they might walk off the landing stage of their own accord! However we used our Faith in Nature products all weekend.
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Upcoming Racing
Tomorrow I fly to Amsterdam! I kick off the summer racing season with the Holland Beker regatta in Amsterdam racing the double with Tina Stiller.
We are racing both Saturday and Sunday, currently set to be straight finals both days with three entries on Saturday and six on Sunday. This is our first multi lane racing of the season, something which will only be repeated if we get selected for the European Championships in September.
Next week Tina and I will be joined in a quad by Sarah Cowburn and Rachel Gamble-Flint (the GB U23 double from 2011) and we will be racing at Henley Women's Regatta, and then two weeks later Henley Royal regatta. Tina and I will be doubling up with the quad and the double at Henley Women's, but only racing the quad at Henley Royal because there is no women's doubles event at Henley Royal.
This weekend in Amsterdam we will be facing some stiff international competition, rumoured to be the Czech national heavy and lightweight doubles and potentially a Swedish double. We will be trying out the two different combinations of racing, on Saturday I will be at bow in the boat and on Sunday I will be at stroke in the boat. I am really excited for the weekend, looking forward to getting side by side with some fast crews and testing ourselves against them.
I will let you know how it goes!
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| The Bosbaan in Amsterdam |
We are racing both Saturday and Sunday, currently set to be straight finals both days with three entries on Saturday and six on Sunday. This is our first multi lane racing of the season, something which will only be repeated if we get selected for the European Championships in September.
Next week Tina and I will be joined in a quad by Sarah Cowburn and Rachel Gamble-Flint (the GB U23 double from 2011) and we will be racing at Henley Women's Regatta, and then two weeks later Henley Royal regatta. Tina and I will be doubling up with the quad and the double at Henley Women's, but only racing the quad at Henley Royal because there is no women's doubles event at Henley Royal.
This weekend in Amsterdam we will be facing some stiff international competition, rumoured to be the Czech national heavy and lightweight doubles and potentially a Swedish double. We will be trying out the two different combinations of racing, on Saturday I will be at bow in the boat and on Sunday I will be at stroke in the boat. I am really excited for the weekend, looking forward to getting side by side with some fast crews and testing ourselves against them.
I will let you know how it goes!
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The Pink Double
Our new blog is live - for our doubles project this summer. See www.thepinkdouble.blogspot.com for more details on what we are doing and who is helping us.
We are doing some internal racing this weekend at the GB base Caversham lake. We have what is called a speed order, where lots of different boat types race over 2k and then they compare our times by converting them to a percentage of gmt, although in rowing this stands for 'gold medal time' rather than Greenwich mean time. At the end of the weekend we will have an order of speed for all the boats that raced, ranked by percentage of gmt rather than time. Hence a single can come out top in the speed order, with the highest percentage despite being the slowest boat. We are racing Friday 18th, and Sunday 20th, a flat out 2k race both days, it is a great opportunity to practice our race plan and prepare for regatta racing.
Lets hope for good rowing weather!
We are doing some internal racing this weekend at the GB base Caversham lake. We have what is called a speed order, where lots of different boat types race over 2k and then they compare our times by converting them to a percentage of gmt, although in rowing this stands for 'gold medal time' rather than Greenwich mean time. At the end of the weekend we will have an order of speed for all the boats that raced, ranked by percentage of gmt rather than time. Hence a single can come out top in the speed order, with the highest percentage despite being the slowest boat. We are racing Friday 18th, and Sunday 20th, a flat out 2k race both days, it is a great opportunity to practice our race plan and prepare for regatta racing.
Lets hope for good rowing weather!
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
View towards Europeans
Looking forwards...
So, after a solid performance at the March Olympic trials I was looking forward to getting some good training done, however just two weeks later we were informed that a selection of the lower ranked athletes who went to Olympic trials had to also do April trials. The April trials this year have been for European, World Universities and U23 World selection and we had been led to believe that if you did Olympic trials then you would be exempt from April. Two weeks before April trials we were told this was no longer the case, so we started doing some prep to get ready to race again.
My Leander teammate, Kristina Stiller, and I were ranked at the top of the female scullers that were entered to race and we knew it would be really competitive between the two of us but we also wanted to put as large a margin between us and the rest of the field as possible. Unfortunately a week before the trials I started coming down with a chest infection that kept me off training for 10 days and another week until I was back to full training. Although I was really disappointed not to be able to race, I knew that Tina would fly the pink (Leander Club) flag for both of us and she did, winning the trials by a healthy seven seconds in tough, slow conditions.
Based on our strong performances at Olympic trials, and Tina at April, we have been asked to train and race this summer in a double with, if we progress as expected, a view to racing at the European Championships in Varese, Italy in September of this year. This is great news for both of us because it gives us so much time to spend in the boat together and we have a real plan for the summer racing season. With such a long season ahead and being set in a boat early on it helps that we both get on well!
Now that I am over my illness training has been going well and Tina and I are enjoying having the luxury of time in the boat together so we can sort out our blade angles, technical focuses and play about with the order of where we sit in the boat. Although I love my Rihoy empacher single scull, it is nice to have some company in the boat after a long winter in my single!
The London Marathon
So last weekend I went to London to support friend and fellow Guernsey athlete Lee Merrien in his bid to run the Olympic 'A' qualification time for the marathon. Lee had a brilliant run, and in windy conditions managed to run a personal best time and finish as the top British man. Despite this he was a little over 90 seconds away from the qualification time and so missed out on Olympic selection. I am devastated for Lee, as he deserved a spot, he has worked his arse off (and every other little bit of fat!) and Olympic selection means the world to any athlete. A rower and photographer friend of mine, Nick Middleton was supporting his brother and managed to get some good photos of Lee which I will share when I manage to get my paws on them.
Support
We have had some brilliant support from various companies who are keen to help us on our route to the European Championships.
HUNTER BOOTS
Hunter Boots have given us both a pair of GORGEOUS Navy Brit wellies which we have been wearing with love and pride! Aren't they amazing?! We have always been very impressed with the Hunter wellies, and this British inspired pair seemed made for us! I am living in mine at the moment with all the showers we have been having.
HEADSWEATS
We have gotten some great hats and a visor from Headsweats, which we look forward to racing in. Tina has already raced in her visor and it was a great success by all accounts! My cat loves getting inside things, so my new visor was an obvious target for him :)
I can't work out how to rotate this photo on here, so please excuse the head turning.
BUFFWEAR
We also got in contact with Buff, looking for a buff each to protect our necks/heads from the wind chill; I had been coveting one for a while. The team at Buff have been unbelievable and replied to us very quickly, stating that they would like to provide us with not just one buff each but many! Offering that we become brand ambassadors for them! This is very exciting, and we are testing out their new range of (brand new, unlaunched) technical kit for 2012, which I can reveal is AMAZING. The range of buffs on offer is beyond extensive and we are very lucky to have been given almost one of every kind so you will be seeing a lot of these :)
FAITH IN NATURE
Tina and I were thinking about the season and it looks like we will be very busy racing, both home and internationally so being girls, we wanted to make sure that we didn't look all raced out by the end of the season! We place a lot of faith in nature as we push our body to the limit time and time again. We rely on it to recover, repair and grow so we felt that the Faith in Nature brand with naturally sourced ingredients and no artificial colours or perfumes in it would best reflect our attitude to training our bodies. We are looking forward to using their deodorants, moisturiser and face wipes over the coming racing season.
Thank you so much to everyone who is contributing to our season, we are excited about racing and will keep you updated.
As always, Man Group, Guernsey Sports Commission's Rising Stars programme and Jeremy Rihoy at Rihoy and Sons are my main supporters, along with my parents of course!
New blog for the double is to be launched soon. I will let you know when it goes live so you can follow our progress directly there!
So, after a solid performance at the March Olympic trials I was looking forward to getting some good training done, however just two weeks later we were informed that a selection of the lower ranked athletes who went to Olympic trials had to also do April trials. The April trials this year have been for European, World Universities and U23 World selection and we had been led to believe that if you did Olympic trials then you would be exempt from April. Two weeks before April trials we were told this was no longer the case, so we started doing some prep to get ready to race again.
My Leander teammate, Kristina Stiller, and I were ranked at the top of the female scullers that were entered to race and we knew it would be really competitive between the two of us but we also wanted to put as large a margin between us and the rest of the field as possible. Unfortunately a week before the trials I started coming down with a chest infection that kept me off training for 10 days and another week until I was back to full training. Although I was really disappointed not to be able to race, I knew that Tina would fly the pink (Leander Club) flag for both of us and she did, winning the trials by a healthy seven seconds in tough, slow conditions.
Based on our strong performances at Olympic trials, and Tina at April, we have been asked to train and race this summer in a double with, if we progress as expected, a view to racing at the European Championships in Varese, Italy in September of this year. This is great news for both of us because it gives us so much time to spend in the boat together and we have a real plan for the summer racing season. With such a long season ahead and being set in a boat early on it helps that we both get on well!
Now that I am over my illness training has been going well and Tina and I are enjoying having the luxury of time in the boat together so we can sort out our blade angles, technical focuses and play about with the order of where we sit in the boat. Although I love my Rihoy empacher single scull, it is nice to have some company in the boat after a long winter in my single!
The London Marathon
So last weekend I went to London to support friend and fellow Guernsey athlete Lee Merrien in his bid to run the Olympic 'A' qualification time for the marathon. Lee had a brilliant run, and in windy conditions managed to run a personal best time and finish as the top British man. Despite this he was a little over 90 seconds away from the qualification time and so missed out on Olympic selection. I am devastated for Lee, as he deserved a spot, he has worked his arse off (and every other little bit of fat!) and Olympic selection means the world to any athlete. A rower and photographer friend of mine, Nick Middleton was supporting his brother and managed to get some good photos of Lee which I will share when I manage to get my paws on them.
Support
We have had some brilliant support from various companies who are keen to help us on our route to the European Championships.
HUNTER BOOTS
Hunter Boots have given us both a pair of GORGEOUS Navy Brit wellies which we have been wearing with love and pride! Aren't they amazing?! We have always been very impressed with the Hunter wellies, and this British inspired pair seemed made for us! I am living in mine at the moment with all the showers we have been having.
HEADSWEATS
We have gotten some great hats and a visor from Headsweats, which we look forward to racing in. Tina has already raced in her visor and it was a great success by all accounts! My cat loves getting inside things, so my new visor was an obvious target for him :)
BUFFWEAR
We also got in contact with Buff, looking for a buff each to protect our necks/heads from the wind chill; I had been coveting one for a while. The team at Buff have been unbelievable and replied to us very quickly, stating that they would like to provide us with not just one buff each but many! Offering that we become brand ambassadors for them! This is very exciting, and we are testing out their new range of (brand new, unlaunched) technical kit for 2012, which I can reveal is AMAZING. The range of buffs on offer is beyond extensive and we are very lucky to have been given almost one of every kind so you will be seeing a lot of these :)
FAITH IN NATURE
Tina and I were thinking about the season and it looks like we will be very busy racing, both home and internationally so being girls, we wanted to make sure that we didn't look all raced out by the end of the season! We place a lot of faith in nature as we push our body to the limit time and time again. We rely on it to recover, repair and grow so we felt that the Faith in Nature brand with naturally sourced ingredients and no artificial colours or perfumes in it would best reflect our attitude to training our bodies. We are looking forward to using their deodorants, moisturiser and face wipes over the coming racing season.
Thank you so much to everyone who is contributing to our season, we are excited about racing and will keep you updated.
As always, Man Group, Guernsey Sports Commission's Rising Stars programme and Jeremy Rihoy at Rihoy and Sons are my main supporters, along with my parents of course!
New blog for the double is to be launched soon. I will let you know when it goes live so you can follow our progress directly there!
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