Better ladies outing, shredded hand, and too much rum

Patrick coxed this session and I don’t think we had a coach.

The balance was much better – we had Sylvia subbing for Beth. We did more starts, this time with three draws, five winds and five lengthens. Patrick was quite happy with what we were doing. I rowed better than I had in the previous session, but had real shoe issues. The shoes in five are huge and so Emma had suggested I stuff the bottom with socks and try to push my toes into the top. When I set them they were fine, but they worked their up under my heels and then contributed to pushing my feet out of the shoes. My feathering arm was really sore and pumped up – I think I used my outside hand a few times because a blister formed under my index finger.

I had put on a blister plaster to cover up last night’s effort, but after about half way, it had rolled up, stuck and become useless. I strapped my hand with a sock for the rest of the outing, but not before the blisters got worse. The sock seemed to work though. I was quite glad that there would be a fair gap before the next outing, hopefully with some healing included.

I went out with Fran, Rich and Kat this night – started at the Avery, then to a club in a lane off Sidney street and then to Rich’s place in Arbury. Rich fed us OP Bundy rum which was a really bad idea. Went to sleep at about 5.15 in Rich’s sleeping bag after Fran and I realised that Kat had gone upstairs with him. Hmmmm. Got up at 7 and walked home to have a little nap for half an hour, then breakfast and to work. Phew.