Today I did the same paddle as I wrote about in Rants and Revelations » Blog Archive » Long Slow Distance training.
The bay was pretty calm, and I started off with a bit of a following swell and an almost imperceptible tail wind. At the one mile point, the wind started to turn to my face, and it was pretty much a side wind the whole time.
In spite of the new paddle, or maybe because of it, my total time wasn’t much better than the last time – about 1:05 instead of 1:12. Since adjusting my technique, I seem to be using a muscle in my shoulder that I haven’t been using before, so I get very sore up there and have to keep stopping and resting it. Here are my splits:
| End of the channel (about 0.5 miles): | 0:05.12 |
| One Mile Point (about 1.0 miles) | 0:12.21 |
| Two Mile Point (about 1.8 miles) | 0:22.24 |
| Bridge (about 2.7 miles) | 0:32.41 |
| Two Mile Point (about 3.6 miles) | 0:42.00 |
| One Mile point (about 4.4 miles) | 0:52.03 |
| End of the channel (about 4.8) | 0:59.41 |
| Finish (about 5.3) | 1:05.00 |