Hello, everyone. At the turn of the new year, there was a brief thread about a gentleman who had set a goal for the year, to paddle a large distance. I think it was 2000 miles, and I believe you said you'd have to paddle at least every other day to achieve the goal. My memory isn't so good, though, so I may be way off base. Is that gentleman still on the forum? I don't recall his name at the moment. If you're out there, how about an update? What was the original goal, are you on track, and so forth? Just curious.... Rick *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> At the turn of the new year, there was a brief thread about a gentleman > who had set a goal for the year, to paddle a large distance. I think it > was 2000 miles, and I believe you said you'd have to paddle at least > every other day to achieve the goal. My memory isn't so good, though, > so I may be way off base. > The original post mentioned a 3000 Nm goal. I said something like I was already 500 mile behind in the first month so why bother to make resolutions. Back channel I wrote you about my plans and explained that I had laid out a schedule for 3000 Nm but I knew that I could not actually keep up with that plan. I was hoping to use that schedule as incentive to get in an actual 2000 Nm. Well its not even going to be close. I will have about 500 Nm done by the end of August. I am still hoping to get up to 1000 Nm. Our best paddling season is October - December so it is possible, but not likely unless I can get closer to the 150 Nm/month level. Most months I have been paddling around 70Nm, but in Feb and July I got in less than 20Nm which really hurt my efforts. One of the of the factors has been the lack of 4-6 hr paddles. I have been doing regular 2 hour paddles in the 6 to 7 Nm range but I just can't seem to find time to get in the 12-18 Nm paddles that I use to do fairly often. Still it has been interesting keeping track of my progress. I have an Excel spreadsheet with dates, miles and paddling times as well as highlight notes describing each paddle. Its nice to be able to look back and see where I went, who I paddled with and what interesting things we saw. Mark J. Arnold *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Mark, thanks for the update. I'm going to archive this e-mail so that I don't forget all the particulars again :-) I'd like to ask you about it once more in early January just to see how the year ended up, if you don't mind. My paddling has really suffered this year as well. My daughters lit a fire under their athletics, so we've been busy getting "bleacher butt" all year. At one point, lasting for 3 weeks in the height of all the overlap, I had 2 kids on 5 teams. That was NOT a fun 3 weeks! It wasn't supposed to work out that way, but when they advanced to Regional, State and then National tournaments (we thought they'd lose at the Regional level) we got into a heavy overlap that killed us. Right now, it's back to one team each, so it feels almost like a vacation! When there has been time to paddle, the kids have been going with me, so a 4 hour 15nm paddle has turned into a 1 hr 2nm "fun float". But, as long as they are showing an interest, I won't complain :-) Rick *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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