>How do you folks deal with exhaustion? >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. i frequently paddle til exhaustion so as to learn how to deal with it. the anger method doesn't work well for me. instead i get very happy imagining that it is a race and i envision how tired those behind me must be. then i smile more and more. another technique that i learned from Dick Bridge (a retired minister) is to sing. you can imagine what he sings. Dick also suggested that i make up 4 word chats. my boats are named after my cats, my chants consider them... they help me. Please help me Tigger. .............. these techniques are only used during warm weather paddling, it is too dangerous to do that stuff in the winter. even with training, exhaustion caused poor judgement and i ran into a cypress tree island during the final leg of a race this year. i was unhappy because those behind would see such a stupid mistake. however i recovered and with a thorn in the underside of my thigh, maintained pace till the finish. bye bye bliven *************************************************************************** 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 - 16:12:54 PDT
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