Been a bit slack in posting!
Training for me has been patchy over the last week, had some good C1 paddles including and hour and a half with Steve and Trifon on Sat and a good K1 paddle at Patterson Lakes (soon to be my new training area / club).
Made an awesome carbon seat for the downriver C1 last night, popped it off the flat board this morning. Hope to have it installed in a few days after finishing the coaching course this weekend.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Weekend
Paddled friday night, pretty easy at the lake and coached Saturday Morning, got out in the c1 for a bit.
Sunday
Paddled on Goulburn River at Seymour, a nice stretch of river.
Paddled flatwater C1 in crosswind, currents, boils and through small rapids all excellent practice.
Sunday
Paddled on Goulburn River at Seymour, a nice stretch of river.
Paddled flatwater C1 in crosswind, currents, boils and through small rapids all excellent practice.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Thursday night Outriggers
Out in the big boat again, the afternnon storms didn't materialise which is fortunate as we were able to get out on the bay as a result. Paddled out into a fairly solid northerly bouncing over swells copping a few in the face even though in seat 2! Had to work though a few technique adaptations as good habits in the K1/C1 are not good in the outrigger its more of a boofhead stroke and the paddle being fairly simple in design works differently.
The run home was more fun and sigificantly quicker, chasing runners / swells fairly intense periods of effort.
All up over an hour of fairly hard continuous paddling, good resistance training was very tired, woke up on couch at 12:30 that night hardly able to move....so tired......looking forward to loosening up paddle tomorrow night with the boys.
The run home was more fun and sigificantly quicker, chasing runners / swells fairly intense periods of effort.
All up over an hour of fairly hard continuous paddling, good resistance training was very tired, woke up on couch at 12:30 that night hardly able to move....so tired......looking forward to loosening up paddle tomorrow night with the boys.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Wednesday
Hmm
Not much wind in the afternoon, though I'd go out in the C1 for the coaching session.
Of course the wind then blew up so I floated around prcticing turning in the wind (this C1 is a pig to turn in the wind). Jumped in the K1 for a bit and then the win ddied down, go figure.
Anyway stability and steering fine in the wind in this boat so once I have made a proper foot rest I'll be fine, going to Steve's factory tomorrow to chat about this.
Thursday Lunch...... ran 3 x Hill sprints on Kangan Dve with the boys at School....... I hate running breathing like an old goat.. will be good for me in the long run i'm sure!
Not much wind in the afternoon, though I'd go out in the C1 for the coaching session.
Of course the wind then blew up so I floated around prcticing turning in the wind (this C1 is a pig to turn in the wind). Jumped in the K1 for a bit and then the win ddied down, go figure.
Anyway stability and steering fine in the wind in this boat so once I have made a proper foot rest I'll be fine, going to Steve's factory tomorrow to chat about this.
Thursday Lunch...... ran 3 x Hill sprints on Kangan Dve with the boys at School....... I hate running breathing like an old goat.. will be good for me in the long run i'm sure!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday 28th Oct
Late meeting at school left work about 5ish.
Due to less than ideal time training is better done from home so I got out the road bike.
While having ridden the mountain bike a bit recently I have only been on the road on the indoor trainer.
Invented a new loop up in the hills near home and rode for about an hour either up or down hill so it was quite a good varied and challenging workout. Felt better than I thought I would and actually was feeling strong on the sustained climbs despite weighing over 10kg more (due to a few years gym, but contributes power) than last time I was bike fit!
I have lost a bit of condition on the bike so sessions will increase by 15 to 30min each time, pretty soon I'll be cracking out 2 to 3 hour rides for cross training.
Key to bike cross training for me, C1 paddling is more demanding on legs than K1 hence I need to make sure I am more conditioned all over than in previous years.
Due to less than ideal time training is better done from home so I got out the road bike.
While having ridden the mountain bike a bit recently I have only been on the road on the indoor trainer.
Invented a new loop up in the hills near home and rode for about an hour either up or down hill so it was quite a good varied and challenging workout. Felt better than I thought I would and actually was feeling strong on the sustained climbs despite weighing over 10kg more (due to a few years gym, but contributes power) than last time I was bike fit!
I have lost a bit of condition on the bike so sessions will increase by 15 to 30min each time, pretty soon I'll be cracking out 2 to 3 hour rides for cross training.
Key to bike cross training for me, C1 paddling is more demanding on legs than K1 hence I need to make sure I am more conditioned all over than in previous years.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday 27th October
A pretty uneventful weekend of training for me, struggling a bit at the moment to get going and have so many other jobs to do.
Saturday
Had a great sleepin and went to coaching, the team did well with many doing their longest ever continuous paddles in singles. A testament to their improving fitness and developing abilities.
Spent the rest of the day doing jobs around the house and had sister in law's 30th birthday.
Sunday
More chores and jobs to do, had to take the safety boat over to Templestowe training wasn't an option today.
Monday
12.5km
1hr of 2min low Level 2, 3min High Level 2 continous.
Felt quite good very relaxed focus on extension into catch probably a bit sloppy on exits.
Very windy but good drive, lungs excellent low level of puff.
Saturday
Had a great sleepin and went to coaching, the team did well with many doing their longest ever continuous paddles in singles. A testament to their improving fitness and developing abilities.
Spent the rest of the day doing jobs around the house and had sister in law's 30th birthday.
Sunday
More chores and jobs to do, had to take the safety boat over to Templestowe training wasn't an option today.
Monday
12.5km
1hr of 2min low Level 2, 3min High Level 2 continous.
Felt quite good very relaxed focus on extension into catch probably a bit sloppy on exits.
Very windy but good drive, lungs excellent low level of puff.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Friday
Woke up very sore from last night's training.
Paddled with the boys in the afternoon we did about 11km at an easy pace, was good for loosening up sore back.
Paddled with the boys in the afternoon we did about 11km at an easy pace, was good for loosening up sore back.
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