This is shaping up to be as lovely a spring as I can remember. We've had a good bit of wind and a good bit of rain, but the temperature has been in the "comfortable" zone for weeks. We've just enjoyed some truly spectacular days Friday, Saturday, and yesterday: calm, sunny, and warm.
My next competition, the Bluz Cruz Canoe and Kayak Race on the Mississippi River down at Vicksburg, is less than a week away now. Any training that might benefit me in this event has now been done. I've spent the last few days trying to do good-quality paddling in shorter-duration sessions. I want to be rested when I get to Vicksburg, but I also want to keep doing some work for the races that follow.
Basically, my sessions Thursday, Saturday, and yesterday ran about an hour each, and included a few short sprints or power drills followed by some unstructured up-tempo stuff. For example, yesterday I did three 8-stroke sprints in the harbor, then paddled up the Mississippi for a mile or so. There was a barge rig coming downriver, and I fell in behind it and caught a few good rides on its stern wake. I had to do some hard sprinting in some turbulent water but I was having fun and it didn't last more than ten minutes or so, so it didn't feel like a crushing workout.
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