Well another night to catch up on some sleep then a long drive down to deepist darkest South Wales tomorrow for the slalom on the AfonTeifi at the weekend and some end of year
hopefully with some
as well.
Hope the water comes up....
The Best of Luck to H, hope she's feeling better by Sat....
Keep us texted.....
Cheers
Red.
Someone nicked the water
There was very little water in the river and the course was very very very long and flat, the fastest K1 man did a 153 which is way and above the recommended time for a course.
H was still not feeling 100% the first thing she had had to eat for two days was on Friday night, so with low energy levels not an ideal course.
But we all had some fun and we can now say we have been to Llandysul
(11-10-09 10:30 PM)Graeme @ YC Wrote: [ -> ]Someone nicked the water
There was very little water in the river and the course was very very very long and flat, the fastest K1 man did a 153 which is way and above the recommended time for a course.
H was still not feeling 100% the first thing she had had to eat for two days was on Friday night, so with low energy levels not an ideal course.
But we all had some fun and we can now say we have been to Llandysul
It can't have been as shallow, flat, cold & windy as Stone
all you can hear on the video is clunk clunk clunk, the paddles not even fully submerged hitting the bottom
Bimey quickest man 153, even my time at stone was quicker than that (just). That is a whole minute on top of the recommended times for a course - how can you train for different courses when times vary that much.
You've started me ranting now, if you're training for a race to run it anerobicaly for 90 secs up to 2 minutes (aerobic & anerobic dependent on abilities) & building up your lactic acid threshold to last this long, how do you then do a race that is set for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes. It's like training your body for a 600m run (sprint), then just entering a 1000m (endurance & sprint) race without having tuned your body for it.
sorry rant over, very long day at stone, left at 6.30am back at 9.30pm. They had 150 entries of which 144 were late !! (including mine
)Had to shoot off after my 2nd run at 5pm as had baths to run at 7 !!!
It was that low I hit loads of rocks, to get to one simple down stream you had to go to the other side of the river to get round the rocks just under the water and that made it into a tight stagger that was not even meant to be there, I even had to roll on my practice run on Sunday as I caught a rock with my paddle as I edged out of an up stream gate.
My times were 170sec average where as it only takes me 60sec to get from the start pool all the way down to the get out above tardis at HPP as a straight sprint.
(12-10-09 10:22 AM)GillD Wrote: [ -> ] (11-10-09 10:30 PM)Graeme @ YC Wrote: [ -> ]Someone nicked the water
There was very little water in the river and the course was very very very long and flat, the fastest K1 man did a 153 which is way and above the recommended time for a course.
H was still not feeling 100% the first thing she had had to eat for two days was on Friday night, so with low energy levels not an ideal course.
But we all had some fun and we can now say we have been to Llandysul
It can't have been as shallow, flat, cold & windy as Stone all you can hear on the video is clunk clunk clunk, the paddles not even fully submerged hitting the bottom
Bimey quickest man 153, even my time at stone was quicker than that (just). That is a whole minute on top of the recommended times for a course - how can you train for different courses when times vary that much.
You've started me ranting now, if you're training for a race to run it anerobicaly for 90 secs up to 2 minutes (aerobic & anerobic dependent on abilities) & building up your lactic acid threshold to last this long, how do you then do a race that is set for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes. It's like training your body for a 600m run (sprint), then just entering a 1000m (endurance & sprint) race without having tuned your body for it.
sorry rant over, very long day at stone, left at 6.30am back at 9.30pm. They had 150 entries of which 144 were late !! (including mine )Had to shoot off after my 2nd run at 5pm as had baths to run at 7 !!!
come on gill be fair shallow doesnt come into the question i think it was more of a stream especially in the afternoon mind you it was nice to see that mark finally washed his hair during his judges run
and at least you managed to get a mcdonalds on the way to the pool i didnt