"The inches we need are everywhere around us. On this Team we fight for those inches!"

The GB Premier Women have now completed all their training in preparation for the World Championships in Prague which starts in only eight days. Looking fit in their kit the team will be a force to be reckoned with.

The Championships will be an amazing journey of highs and lows, but one they will never forget. It is a journey which very few people get to ride and say 'I represented my country at a World Championships.'

It is a time to forget all one's inhibitions and worries as only the fearless can really achieve their dreams. As one famous Everest climber once said, "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves" - Sir Edmund Hilary.

With now less than 20 days to go before we leave for Prague the Team are all training hard in preparation for the World Championships.

Just remember "A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way" - Swahili proverb.

The Great Britain Premier Women's Dragon Boat Team would like to thank Brown and Forrest for their generous donation to this year's team. Their donation will be put to very good use in helping to cover the cost of bringing our own physiotherapist to the World Championships.

As 'ordinary women, doing extra ordinary things' we are all still prone to the inevitable bug. Following our last training weekend two weeks ago, one of our fellow paddlers suffered a bout of Swine Flu. Not nice for the person concerned as it lays you up for a least a week unable to eat, feeling rather nauseous or even consider doing any training. But having been quarantined to her room with her prescription drugs she has now fully recovered. 

Thank goodness the rest of the team have not shown any symptoms.