I'm starting to feel like a broken record, talking about how beat-up I've been feeling in the last several weeks. I didn't do myself any favors by pushing that pig of a boat around the lower Atchafalaya River last Saturday. My left lower back area has remained sore this week, and I have "tennis elbow" in my left arm that I think also resulted from that ordeal. Meanwhile, I still have pain in my right biceps area from my overzealous strength work a while back. I'm finally acknowledging that it's not routine soreness, but that I did in fact injure myself.
These ailments provide some discomfort in the boat, but they don't seem to impede my paddle stroke directly. So I'm hoping I can nurse them along while following a more or less normal training plan. My plan for tomorrow is to do a set of 450-meter bridge-to-bridge sprints, and that will be a big test of what my body can handle.
As for the last few days, I paddled with Joe in the harbor on Tuesday, and yesterday I did a slightly more intense paddle that included three 8-stroke sprints. I did the leg and core exercises of the current strength routine Monday, Wednesday, and today.
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