Another 3 paddles this week, with two sessions in the Laance. Basic fartlek session which was a 10 minute warm up followed by 8 hard efforts between 2 to 4 minutes. I am really enjoying these paddles and I think they are doing more to help my stroke than anything else. I am still dropping my recovery elbow too low, but I have to really think about it otherwise I just forget; old age creeping in. ;-) I tend to do these while Adam does his own thing and he had two really good paddles at the same time, both for an hour each.
Wednesday was a session in the mystere. Our last two paddles in it had been dire. Before that, everything had been good with stability but Adam just couldn't get his head right for the last couple of paddles so anything was going to be better. The bad news is, that we did have another capsize but the 10 minutes before that was the best paddling that we have done together. As we pushed off initially we teetered our way down to Kingston and after 10 minutes as we put in our turn to come back a rowing 8 with support boat came through very fast, kicking up a big wave. We had to go through it so I got the bow head on and we rode through and as a result Adam, instead of tensing up, completely relaxed. As we came back we had to ride some large swells and waves and we did it perfectly. The boat felt great, we felt great and we were still keeping a good cadence with our stroke rate. Happy days. :-) We had got through all of that and as we were congratulating ourselves at getting back onto flat water we rolled almost directly opposite the club. We didn't mind too much. We had seen a glimpse of the promised land and proved to both of us that we could paddle the mystere comfortably. We need to just do it a lot more often.
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