Lamma regatta

Lamma regatta

Another day, another 6am start to get to the beach for a regatta. They promised lush tropical landscapes framed by Hong Kong’s world-leading industrial architecture. Well it is certainly that…

Head then feet for mosquitoes

This might explain the preponderance of leg and foot bites we are getting over here. Probably not why Wiffy is getting bitten ten times more often than I am. Caveat: Asian mozzies may be different to African ones....

Bikram Tabata circuits

Tabata Training is the result of research that evaluated a novel interval training approach that can give very good results. The basic plan is to go as fast and hard as you can on an exercise for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds and repeat eight times. Doing this...

Seagods triumphant

We got both Seagods boats into the Gold Cup final at the Stanley Warm-up on Tuesday, and the A boat deservedly won by a country mile. My boat was the fifth runner up (our gold cup says so!). 5th out of 50 or so boats really isn’t bad, especially as we are mostly...

Race day

06:30 start on Deep Water Bay race day. Not a clue what the day holds other than some hard paddling followed by beer at 15:00 or so.