Our first serious training session, on the water by 06:30, thankfully the rain had cleared and been replaced by a light wind.We had two hours to use on the water so we went down to the one hour point at roughly the same speed as last time and turned at Kelmscott. On turning round we suddenly noticed the wind! It was much harder work up stream but the boat seemed to stay truer and we got some great periods of paddling in unison going before the inevitable breaking from the back to steer. As we came to the last lock on the way home we nudged the bank with the bow and the camera, complete with new waterproof housing and suction tripod fell in to the water and sank. We should probably have tied it on or at least attached a cork to it, another valuable lesson learnt.
We started to get a feel for locks under a bit of effort and cold, we were walking like dinosaurs when we got out of the boat, not dissimilar to the triathlon t2 from bike to run!
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