This morning I did my new strength routine (I guess I'll start calling it the August strength routine now) and then went down to the river. I decided to paddle the surf ski for the first time in a long time, and see how the technical stuff I'd been working on in the K1 carried over. I paddled for 60 minutes, and it was nice not feeling like my next stroke could flip me over. I also enjoyed the weather: we had a string of very humid days this past week, but a front came through late yesterday and today a north breeze had blown away the moisture.
My surf ski came equipped with a foot strap, but I'd never really relied on it. Today I tightened it up and tried to make better use of it on each stroke. The more extreme contortion of my body it allows has been tiring, but then anytime I make a change to my stroke technique I go through a such an adjustment period. I'm hopeful that I'm onto something good.
I did a set of six backstrokes-then-forward-strokes drills, and then timed myself in the harbor from the Hernando DeSoto Bridge to the monorail bridge, for which my PR is a second or two under two minutes. I did it today in about 2:02.
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