Weekend at Bendigo

The holidays are over, lots of cross training done on the bike and in the pool, some evil masssages and now recovered from the flu and back on the water.

C1 paddling is the order of the day at the moment, after a few weeks off the knee due to illness the skills were a bit rusty on the weekend. Saturday's 10km in the wind, avoiding snakes were a bit of a slog and resulted in a hand torn up by tape on the paddle, but the km's need doing and there is no time like the present to get the work done to make up for lost fitness. There are only 3 months remaining to get in form for wildwater selection races in Tassie.

The weekend was spend in the Bendigo region with the school team, it is great to see some of the improvements being made by the team paddlers especially the younger ones who seem to be soaking up the opportunities and technical advice. Most of the members of the team are getting out in K2's now which is awesome as well as necessary, even some of the younger fellas want to have a crack at it! It is rewarding to see the progress being made, a relief but the journey for these young people is but a step into a long journey ahead for the the next 6 months and beyond...