team development

Loads of technical research by Richard and myself and the answer- baby food!

The baby brekkie doesn't contain any babies (not many do) but is banana flavour, we liked it! The strawberries and cream had a texture like rice pudding and tasted of pinkness.

Today I took a trip to Marsport. The M5 was broken so I went through Bristol got onto the M4 and after Swindon it was even more broken than the M5. 225km took me 4 hours, that averages 56 kph (33mph). Brian Greenham would have cycled it faster!

Anyway I collected our wings and they fitted into my Tardis car
(at least my chameleon circuit works)

We also picked up a new team member, she's called teamGT dog, honest!

No she's not related to Top Gear dog but is a level 3 kayak coach

Tom

nutritonal research

Remko and myself vertured into the wilds of Wales to do some research into race foods. We ventured to a small settlement in the principality named Newport. From here our native guide, Craig, took us on this new locomotive contraption to a village called Cardiff. Here we conducted research into traditional Welsh food at a sports training facility called Thai Edge

Several options were sampled. No hard and fast conclusions were reached so further research will have to be conducted


Today (Sunday) we had a wholesome McBreakfast of McPorridge (+McSausage and McEgg McBagel) and a McToasted McBagel with McPhiladelphia McLight

Fuelled, we then ventured into the deepest darkest uncharted English part of Wales named Symonds Yat. Here we looked at paddle techniques. The boats weren't very long and fast so we decided to do a training session- we didn't get lost we just did a very hard training session!

Having finished a hard days training we then performed further nutritional research in Cheltenham. Guacamole, salsa and sour cream are 3 of my 5 fruit or veg a month!

This rated high for nutritional value things as it has green stuff, red stuff and yellow stuff so it must be good for us!


Tom

cars

Today the teamGT transports logistics manager, Mark, and I went to look at some possible support vehicles in Leicestershire.

Here's a short video, the engines are the soundtrack orchestra!
It is wide screen but it's not HD- yet!

(Click on the DB6 for the gallery)

Aston Martin DB6

The Aston Martin was very nice but was the slowest of the 4 we tested but it did have a good carrying capacity for the food and extra gear.

E-type Jaguar

This was faster, is a family hatchback and was more suitable as part of the teams support vehicle. Apparently Jaguar don't do an E-type diesel estate though!

D-type Jaguar

Here Mark tests out the only open top we looked at. This was the fastest. Mark got 140 mph out of it so it may be able to keep up with the teamGT Condor.

The only real problem is that Thule don't do a roof rack for it. However, using the roll bar and the tail fin we could bolt on a V-bar.

Austin Healey 3000

This was our favourite of the 4 we tried. It's very fast, sounds fantastic, is a four seater (apart from the roll cage) and was definitely the best drive.

The boot makes it a very practical support car and may be able to keep up with the boat

Some Italia tractor factory made car

It's not up to the quality that teamGT demands, there isn't a diesel estate option and they got a bit upset when we tried to put a set of Thule bars on it!

Tom

video killed the radio star

here's our first video blog:

just in case any anoraks are in any doubt this was made using an 

Olympus 1030SW & was produced using iMovie on an Apple Mac

more training

On my own  tonight-


1 hr in the gym followed by a run home


Got up to 84% (152 bpm) of my maximum target heart rate (181 bpm)

Need to train more often


Tom