I started Tuesday with an around-the-block run and a gym session, and then I headed down to the riverfront to paddle for 60 minutes. It was a lovely morning to be out there: it was sunny and the temperature was between 80 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and there was just enough of a breeze blowing to keep me cool. I did a series of power drills: very short efforts with high resistance (all three golf whiffle balls!) on the boat. I did a rep every five minutes starting at 0:15 and ending at 0:45; for each rep I paddled as hard as I could for six or eight strokes, and then I brought the golf balls up above the waterline and paddled easy until the next rep.
Yesterday I did some relaxed bike riding in the afternoon. This morning I returned to the river for some unstructured paddling. There was a fairly strong south wind blowing, and with the help of an upstream-moving barge rig that had passed through a while before I got out to the river, it was generating some small but rideable downwind conditions. I spent a half hour or so working the waves before I headed back to the dock, and that was fun. I expect I'll do something a bit more substantial in the boat this weekend, so it was nice to have something not so serious to do today.
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