11:39 Dec 10m (Tues) 2024
The seat under me is a smooth granite slab on it is witten the motto, “Go out there and now faster.” I quite like the idea, but "faster isn’t my thing these days.
I was eighteen, when following two years of somewhat haphazard training, I rowed bow for ‘Gloucester Ladies in
the final of the "Ladies Coxed Four” event. History records that I rowed in the victorious team. There is even a photo in the Gloucester Jounal (July 1969) of me, oar aloft, celebrating.
History Lies.
We were second. We lost by a canvass.
The guys, annoyed that the Captain of Gloucester Ladies had rowed for Stourport, (the actual winners) sent the photo-journalist in our direction, and, mea culpa, nobody asked any questions.
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