Training

Today was our first day paddle training and it's made us realise how much work there is to do. We only covered around 8kms and we're supposed to be doing 35 a day for 20 days non stop. Oh god. It's not the same as river paddling as there's no river and no running water and if you don't paddle then you don't go anywhere. Weirdly that's come as a bit of a shock. It's good to have the reality check though as otherwise we'd end up on the water in Byron and it would all be over in a couple of hours having just got past the light house. There's some serious training to do and we're going to end up looking like the spartans from 300 and if we don't then I'm going to use makeup to get the 12 pack going for the photo call. I'm off to the UK on Monday for a couple of weeks so Scotty's on the case with chasing up sponsorship - we still haven't got a kayak as yet but the Australian Prostate Cancer Foundation has accepted our proposal so we can start sending out materials with their logo now. It's getting closer - we're both hugely busy with work and so late evenings and weekends are the only time we've go to make this happen. My mum still thinks we're mad and my girlfriend's decided to go home for Xmas and New Year rather than worry if we've been eaten my sharks each day. If anyone's thinking of doing a festive surf trip then let us know as we could do with some support on the land.
I had an idea today to do the whole thing dressed in suits, shirts, ties and bowler hats. It would look great as a launch photo and kind of gets that message out that anyone can have an adventure and raise some cash for a good course even if like us you've got intense day jobs and work in the city. 9to5 jobs (or 8to7 in our case) doesn't mean you have to be a rat. We're going to be racing whales instead.