Its always cookie time for St Paul’s girls
St Pauls girls eat their way to the finals. For them there is not limit to the chocolate milk.
Being a teenage girl can be hard.
Pressure comes from directions that don’t even register on regular folks radars.
With body image and restrictive eating notoriously being an issue for young women.
But not for St Paul’s U18 novice coxed four – quite the opposite actually.
For rowers Georgia Burke, Ciara Gyde, Kelly Forde, Sinead Kingston-White and Kate Little John it is basic practise to eat six times a day.
“When your a rower it’s like your on an anti-diet. You have to eat. I eat more than I ever have before,” Burke said.
For breakfast Gyde eats four pieces of fruit toast and a cookie time cookie.
Followed by morning tea of chocolate milk and iced buns.
Then a big lunch.
Another cookie time cookie and roast peanuts before training.
More chocolate milk and iced buns after training.
And dinner.
The girls love the way their intense training allows them to eat.
“The best part [of rowing] is we can eat as much as we want. You have to eat loads of carbs.”
Now, though, the rowing season is almost over and the girls are planning to soon downsize their intake to better suit winter sports.
“I will cut back a lot after rowing,” Gyde said.
All that chowing down has payed off. They have won both their heats so far and expect to do well in the final.
They are enjoying the atmosphere of the regatta most of all. Their parents come out everyday to cheer them on – with piles of pasta and chocolate milk, no doubt.
