The K2.

Great news to report today. I have sourced through the power of eBay, a k2 racing kayak. I have to be honest I don’t know much about it, looking at it’s dimensions and the profile of it’s hull it will be a tippy craft and I know full well that I am going to be spending some time getting to know the flavour of the river Severn while training in it.

The boat is also a little tatty looking at the moment, though it has been stored inside and looks in pretty good knick. Skilled application of some fibreglass around the cockpit and a lick of paint should make this boat look half decent.


I’m planning on collecting the boat on the weekend so will know more about it’s condition and amount of work that will be needed to be sea worthy then.

And then onto other news. One of those races I entered myself into this year, the Ironbridge half marathon, emailed me on the weekend to tell me that my race number was 176.

I had sort of forgotten about this race what with the Great North Run and all that eclipsing this 13 miler. A couple of things have dawned on me since receiving that email though. The main one being that it is a 13 mile race in 18 days, and so far I have not exactly done much in the way of marathon training. In fact, I have only been running twice and the combined mileage is a meagre 11 miles.

I remember a friend of mine training every day for months before he did a half marathon, and after all that training he still complained that it was a tough event.

Well there isn’t much I can do about it now, I will have to get what training in that I can and hope that it is enough.