Since the Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race I've been taking a little bit of a break from "serious" training. I'm still paddling, still doing my strength routine; but I haven't yet started focusing on the races to come.
Those races will be here before I know it, however. The next race I might do is just three weeks from tomorrow. And then the next three weekends after that feature races that I might do in the form of a little two-week vacation trip. So that's four consecutive weekends of racing I could be looking at. Hmm.
Last night I paddled at high intensity for the first time since the OICK Race, and it was pretty taxing. One thing I've learned is that when you have a really good race, a euphoria ensues that makes it very easy to forget just how hard the workouts were that produced the good result. I met other local paddlers out at Shelby Farms for a set of five 500ish-meter sprints followed by a fast lap of the lake, and I guess it was my harsh reminder that the euphoric period is over and it's time to get back to business. By the last two sprints, I was struggling. I did see a silver lining in the lake lap, which was somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 meters. I found a decent rhythm and I was encouraged by how well I was able to paddle after those exhausting sprints.
Besides last night's session, this week I did the strength routine Monday, Wednesday, and today, and on Tuesday Joe and I did out usual loop of the harbor.
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