OK we've spent every afternoon this week at Shiplake lock, the river is still flowing too fast for us to safely head out, hopefully we can get out at the weekend.

Tonight we learned how to paddle at night, we were in sync with each other and kept our balance, didnt capsize and we kept our speed up. No torches at this point, in the race we will have head torches, glow sticks and a forward facing light so if we can do it with nothing then we should be ok.

Hopefully we can get some mileage under our belts next week.