How do you folks deal with exhaustion? The following generic story might sound very familiar to all paddlers and mountaineers. A person paddles 20 miles in a region with few beaches, and miles of cliffs. In the way he/she has to cross two unforecasted storms, after which the water is relatively calm. There are still 5 miles to cover, and no landing close. The person is non longer enjoying the adventure and gets a bitter mood. All of the sudden he/she finds out that he/she does not want to paddle one more stroke. But there is no other alternative. Eventually the paddler is so exhausted that he/she does not care about anything anymore --"ok, I stop paddling, even if I die" kind of attitude. A happy end would be that the person eventually reaches a beach falls into a state of depression, and starts crying like a baby. What tricks do you have to go that extra mile when your body and mind are about to give up? One that works for many people is to think of something that makes you very angry, concentrate on that, and swear with every stroke until you reach the destination point. Others just cry, but not everyone gets better by doing that. Ideas? experiences? - Julio *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 13:48:13 PDT
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