Month: May 2023
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Vaikobi kit delivers on the DW
British weather. It’s one element that makes the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race not just a 125-mile paddle but the “Canoeists Everest”. And it’s what defeats many paddlers who didn’t invest in quality clothing. On the 2013 edition of the race, almost 1/3 of competitors gave up when met with sub-zero temperatures and a bitter…
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Dougal’s Epic Adventure
A surfski adventure with no destination ❝ I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move❞ Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes The route? There is no route! No one knows where I’ll go, not even me. I could be…
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The Jon White Trophy
I’m delighted to have been awarded the Jon White Trophy for this year’s Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race, awarded to ‘the disabled paddler displaying exceptional determination or resolve over adversity’. This is in recognition of the challenge I faced racing the 125 miles with type 1 diabetes. Jonathan William White is an inspiration and it’s…
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A micro-adventure
I slammed my laptop shut and closed my eyes. It kept whirring, my brain too. Full of spam, too many tabs open. Spend enough time looking at screens and you forget how you used to think. Social media burrows in to the brain until those vile characters you wish you’d never wasted time laying eyes…