From Andy Pearce:

Weeks 12-13 - Christmas, and that entailed :)

1 busy week of rowing prior to Christmas, then 2 Challenge pieces in the Christmas week.

Prior to Christmas we completed 72k (Anita) and 82k (Me), including Anita's 1st and my 2nd Half Marathon row ever. Anita finished in 1:36:22 (2:17), putting her 10th in her age group this year on the C2 rankings, I broke my PB by over 3 minutes, coming in at 1:20:14 (1:54), though I suffered a bit from numb bum from 6k left, and should have come in sub 1:19.

In the Christmas week we completed the downhill 5k (2k, 1.5k, 1k, 500m, each with 1' rest between) for the C2 Cross-Team Challenge (www.c2ctc.com ) for our team, C2TweetCrew, both finishing in the 2nd C2TC boat (Anita 2:06.2 inc. a PB 2k by 12 seconds!, me 1:43.7 inc a PB 2k by 5 seconds) and for the C2UK Challenge Series (therowingcompany.com/challengeseries) a 5k flat-out piece, with Anita breaking her PB by 67s (21:39, 2:09.9) and me by 36 seconds (17:53, 1:47.4) so all in all a very successful couple of weeks.

Next up - 'Metre Munching' for the Virtual Team Challenge in January, with a Half Marathon and Full Marathon planned over the next two weeks!!!