“Feel the fear… and do it anyway!”
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Current Occupation:
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Corporate Lawyer |
| Dream Job: | Professional Ironwoman |
| Passions: | Eating chocolate, paddling anything and everything, to live in a world of red |
| Ambitions: | Paddle the Molokai Channel |
| Claim to Fame/Infamy: | Hung out with the Pope in the Vatican, PD gossip focus point, or so everyone else seems to think… but I know nothing, honest!) |
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| Food: | tim tams, cadbury snack, cadbury black forest, cadbury hazlenut, cadbury fruit & nut, cadbury breakaway, cadbury… |
| Drinks: | Mocha, Caramel Latte, Great Aussie Grape Juice, Bourbon & Coke |
| Movies/Books/Music: | Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Da Vinci Code and other Dan Brown novels, Gwen Stefani |
| Super Hero or Villian: | Bionic Woman |
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PDs Stuff |
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| PD Member Since: | Since the beginning… October 1993 |
| How I Got Into Paddling: | Tagged along with a school friend who paddled with ACCA |
| Favourite PD Moment: | Winning PDs first ever state title (womens) at Darling Harbour in 1996 |
| Three words to describe PDs: | team spirit, awesome friends, inspiring |
| How Other PDs Describe Linda: | Clever, smiley, inscrutable, stunning, awesome, dynamo, scarlet, spunky, trim, taut, terrific, world’s greatest smile, pocket powerhouse, club stalwart, great team motivator, turbo, leader, chin-up machine; massive… MASSIVE… MASSIVE, one of the nicest people I know; power, committed, gives excellent feedback and advice, cool, controlled, an inspiration to all Little People, ultra-competitive, supportive, part of the “heart & soul” of PDs, epitomises the “perfect paddler”, a beautiful true champion (on & off the water), sincere, quiet achiever; focused, The Interrogator, ultra determined person who will destroy the competition – but does it with a smile! |
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Other Stuff
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| Role Models, Heroes & Heroines: | Hayley Bateup (2005 Australian surf ski champion and amazing ironwoman), Linda Hamilton (ooooh, to have her arms in Terminator 2) |
| When not paddling most likely to be found: | getting ready to paddle, having coffee and brunch with friends after paddling, practising my swimming, going for a jog, eating chocolate |
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Three people you’d like to invite to dinner:
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Robin Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman |
| Superstitions (Paddling or Otherwise): | always turn left on my ski |
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