After last week's exertions on the Olympic training front, I needed to get out and about on the weekend. Lucky for us, Saturday was clear and beautiful, and we took the bikes out along the river to The Bridge near Waterbeach.
On the way we got to see a boat race, men's eights in what they call a head-to-head. The river is too narrow for the boats to race beside each other, so there's just a long line of them, one after the other.
Elaine and I on our three-wheeler raced alongside one boat for a while -- they go pretty darn fast! A lot of the teams have women coxes, but the one we were neck-and-neck with had a guy with a very loud voice, urging us all on. We sure needed fueling up when we got to the pub!Another picture of pretty branches and sky and stuff.
And in training news, I think that Bob, or is it Dick, will win his bet and I will knit a pullover vest in the round. This not only gets rid of pesky buttons and buttonholes and buttonbands, which are my nemesis, but will also prevent me from following Dick's idea, or was it Bob's, of turning the whole thing into a baby blanket instead of facing the armhole issue. Stay tuned.
And if you ever fancied knitting up a Starmore sweater or twenty, check this out! Too bad I just found it at the last minute! Actually, too bad I don't have a few thousand dollars of yarn money in my pocket!
Oh, and stashbusters, stay away from this!
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