This morning I paddled for 40 minutes, doing four 12-stroke sprints. I paddled through several brief but heavy showers, and it was quite windy: according to the weather reports, it was blowing from the south at 15 to 20 miles per hour, with gusts up to 30 mph.
The good news is that it's looking more and more likely that the worst weather will be long gone by race time tomorrow morning. The current forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a 10% chance of precipitation and a southwest wind at 7 mph. Wind would probably be our main concern--there has been virtually no lightning even during the most severe moments of today's storms--but 7 mph from the southwest is just enough to cool us off. Until we make the turn up into the harbor, that is; then, the wind will be at our backs and we'll be withering in 90-degree-Fahrenheit heat. Oh well, I've survived that before, and I reckon I'll survive it one more time.
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