On Monday I did a round of the current strength routine. Tuesday was another warm and windy day. I was on my own to paddle because Joe was in an extended meeting, and as I was still feeling tired from Sunday's paddle as well as Monday's strength work, I decided a nice taut 60-minute sort of thing in the harbor was what I needed. I warmed up and did three 8-stroke sprints, and then paddled on the fast side of medium for the rest of the hour. I tried to keep my body relaxed, even when I was paddling into the teeth of that wind.
A bunch of rain moved through the Mid South Wednesday and yesterday. By the time I was in the boat yesterday morning it had just about moved out, but the wind was blowing again. I felt that another good "speedy" session was in order. I warmed up paddling south, into the wind, and then did three 8-stroke sprints with the wind at my back. Then I paddled south again, to the mouth of the harbor, and turned around for a good long downwind leg. When I reached the monorail bridge I timed myself from there to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge--a distance of about 450 meters. My time was a second or two under two minutes--very wind-aided, yes, but it's always nice to be able to break two minutes at this point in the season. I hope that a in a couple of months I'll be doing sets of four of these sprints all under two minutes. I spent the rest of the hour paddling a strong tempo.
I did rounds of the strength routine on Wednesday and today. I believe I'll come up with something
new for the month of April.
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