Wes Boyd reports: My average speed for all trips for the whole month of October is 3.6 MPH, over about 80 miles. This includes time spent looking at deer, stopping to talk with people, wishful thinking on distances, etc. From that, I infer that my normal average cruising speed must be somewhere around 4 MPH, so I'd define "really steaming along" as something over about 4.25 MPH. And, this includes training. My average speed for the month in March this year was 3.0 MPH, and in April 3.1 MPH. In September, I hit 3.9. It's interesting to see the effects of training, conditioning and practice take hold, and then deteriorate as the weather gets colder and I paddle less. [end quote] It may not just be training. The viscosity of water at 25C (77F) is only half what it is at the freezing point. There's more drag in cold water. Wes, you may like to keep track of water temperatures, as well as elapsed times, for a year, and then plot either average speed or elapsed time vs. temperature or viscosity. Bruce Bruce Winterbon bwinterb_at_magma.ca http://magma.ca:80/~bwinterb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Dec 04 2000 - 17:09:40 PST
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