I've reached the point where I'm covering more sport than I actually have time to sit and write up, for the BBC let alone for Dayorama. At the moment there are features on cage fighting, rowing and ice hockey all demanding attention when I get into work tomorrow morning.

The rowing on Saturday was brilliant. I received a phone call from a member of Reading Rowing Club late on Friday afternoon to tell me I hadn't yet missed the women's Head of the River race along the Thames, and immediately cleared my Saturday schedule so I could get to Hammersmith for it.

Reading had taken over the rather splendid Auriol Kensington boathouse, with a private balcony overlooking the race route just before Hammersmith Bridge. I got to stand on the balcony with the coach of Reading's top crew and interview him as they rowed past, which was very nice. Plus they had a bar on the floor below, always a plus on St Patrick's Day. Here's the view from the balcony:

You have to feel a bit sorry for the competitors. They had to push the trailer carrying their boats from the flyover to the boathouse since there was no parking, then unload, fix the boats together, carry them to the water, row in them, row back in them, get them out again, carry them back, dismantle them and push the trailer back. It's not quite a kickaround in the park, is it? Strangely enough the motivation cited by almost everyone I interviewed was "a pint".

On to today, and this evening has been spent watching the Bracknell Bees ice hockey team collect their English Premier League trophy from none other than Reading FC goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann (himself an American and therefore far more qualified to watch an ice hockey match than anyone else).

The Bees beat their opponents Telford 5-3 (they were 3-0 up after 4 minutes), then I had the privilege of being on the ice among the players for the trophy presentation. I spent most of it silently praying that I would stay on my feet, since I only had my old trainers on, and their grip is not brilliant at the best of times. I've no desire to fall over in front of hundreds of delighted ice hockey fans.

The Bracknell rink presented me with another gantry to add to my list:

But since I didn't properly use it, I'm not counting it until we've done a commentary from there or something. There has to be a threshold, or else there'd be Gantry of the Day.

Marcus Hahnemann is very much a pro at this kind of public appearance and he carried off the presentations very well. In our interview afterwards I asked him how he'd keep himself occupied during the break for internationals (Reading don't have a game til April), and his answer was a) fishing and b) repairing his broken car. Nice to see he's keeping his feet on the ground as a Premiership star - okay, so his actual answer was "repairing my broken Porsche", but still...