The training has felt pretty good this week with another round of competitions coming up pretty soon. On Tuesday I paddled for 60 minutes, doing three 8-stroke sprints and then paddling a steady pace. The river was only two feet higher than it had been over the weekend but it seemed quite a bit higher than that. There were a lot of logs and branches and other woody debris floating in the water and I guess that made for a flooded feel.
Yesterday I returned to the riverfront for another pace workout. After warming up and doing three 8-stroke sprints, I embarked on a set of ten half-mile pieces with four minutes recovery in between. My target time for each was 4 minutes 10 seconds, and the actual times were 4:12, 4:08, 4:08, 4:00, 4:06, 4:05, 4:04, 4:05, 4:07, 4:09. I got a bit overzealous on that fourth piece but otherwise stayed pretty close to the target. The workout was certainly tiring but I managed to paddle strong all the way through the last piece, and that was satisfying.
I did rounds of the current strength routine Monday, Wednesday, and today.
As for those upcoming competitions, I'm still trying to figure out which ones I will attend. I'd like to race on both the 22nd and the 29th but money is a bit tight right now because of my expensive rental property renovation, so... we'll see.
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