The organizers of the Long Lake Regatta decided at the last moment to put on a 3 mile “novice” race, and I entered that, and I won! I don’t believe it!
Details later, I have to go back and watch the 10 mile race finish.
Category: Activities
My latest million dollar idea
I was “admiring” the places where my PFD has rubbed my back raw, and I was starting to think how you’d design a PFD that wouldn’t rub when you’re paddling hard. It seemed to me that you could do alternating horizontal bands of floatation material and spandex, so that they could flex as you rotated your torso.
But then I realized a couple of facts
- the “real” racing paddlers I know don’t wear their PFDs, they strap them to back of the kayak.
- most paddlers as fat as me don’t have a proper torso twist racing technique
That was a little more encouraging
I figured today was my last chance to do a long distance paddle before Saturday’s 10 mile race. So today I set off up Irondequoit Bay up to the bridge and back. That’s about 5.3 miles. Monday when I tried to go 6 miles, I got sore in the shoulder and had to cut it down to 4 miles, and that had me worried.
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Busy day (Busy? I just spent 4 hours burying the cat!)
Let’s see, today I
- Fixed a bug that I’ve been working on for over a week (which I would have fixed in a day if the China team hadn’t put in a kluge to hide the most visible symptom). Oh, and the root cause was a module that the China team had written violating a basic assumption of my pre-existing gui code.
- Had a job interview at Paychex which went pretty well, but included a strange little math test at the end which was fun but I’m not sure how relevant it is.
- Went for a paddle – I meant to make six miles, but I only managed four because my shoulder is bugging me.
- Got a call from the sleep clinic at Sleep Insights “reminding” me that I had a consult appointment at 11:20 am tomorrow, which is kind of strange because I had a sleep study at a completely different sleep clinic tomorrow evening.
I thought about writing more on each of those things, but I figured my blog is boring enough without the help. So if you really need more details, comment and I’ll inflict more detail on you.
Another long paddle
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 |