The weekend that was prophesised to be the weekend of the year certainly didn’t disappoint.
And this is how it went!!!
Friday PM
17.00 Final Surf Check, “definitely still on!!!”
17.29 TTRide Truck loaded..
18.00 Rush hour beaten – next stop Cranking Cornwall!!!!
23.00 Touch down in Cornish HQ to competitively exchange journey times with other cars.
23.02 Into bed and ready for tomorrow.
Saturday AM
06.30 Wake up – Still dark – no worries time to fuel up with a coffee and prepare boards.
07.00 Misty morning, surf’s up in a big way, no one out and we’re on it.
07.20 After gruelling paddle out, it is even bigger than it looked through sleepy eyes on the beach. Guy Hayler takes off on a bomb and snaps his favourite surf board that he affectionately called “Sally”
07.30 Caught the next wave in, keen for a regroup, a little bit more energy fuel and with Costantine Bay slightly misfiring, a new location. Somewhere in Cornwall had to be on.
09.00 After a full English and some important knowledge digestion on what was set to be one of the rugby world cup semi finals of all time. Plans were finalised and we headed down the coast to a beach called Godrevy.
11.00 Arrive – sprint up the dunes – and yes, this was it, Cornwall at it’s all time best!!!
11.01 wetsuit half on and running to water. “the closer we got the better it looked.
11.06 Having raced out the back, the session was on and the ttride team were all over it.
Saturday PM
15.06 After a 3 hour classic Cornish session time for a refuel at the local Café.
16.03 Again ready to take to the waves, having relaxed, refuelled and most importantly, convinced ourselves that the boys could take down the French in their own backyard, it was again time for a few more slices of the rare delicacy that is Cornish Perfection.
18.00 lite fading, body aching, surf mind rejoicing and of course rugby looming, time to move.
18.05 We headed back to HQ feeling invincible ‘this has to be the best day ever, all we need to do now is win the rugby’
Which we all know went something like this…
20.00 God Save our……………………………………………!!!!!!
20.40 Half time…….France 9 England 8………………………………?????
21.25 JONNY!!!!!!!!
21.30 SWING LOW……………….!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21.35 Celebration till the early hours….
Sunday AM
09.00 Surf is firing, heads are a little hazy
09.30 Wetsuits on – (moving a little slower)
10.00 in the water and in tune with theme of the whole weekend, “we were again right where we want to be!!”
13.00 No trip to Cornwall is ever complete without a pasty.
13.15 HQ with a pasty in one hand a newspaper confirming last night’s heroics in the other. HAPPY!!
14.00 Load the truck , time to shoot back to London in time for what might have been yet another twist in the 2007 World Cup Tale.
21.30 No twists, Saffa’s win easily. However, ample reason for England to still believe it!!
22.00 A weekend of epic surf, a game of high performance, incredible intensity and true English nerve.
Asleep before my head even hit the pillow…
Smiling as I dream about whether this weekend could ever be beaten??
Personally and I'm sure I'm not alone, I’m gonna hold my breath for next weekend..
So Finally and quite rightly, a serious message to our South African friends, "the champagne is on ice, cos our boys have been here before!!!!"
COME ON BOYS!!!!!!!!
Thanks for tuning in.
W
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