Re: [Paddlewise] Eating & Drinking on the Water

From: Gordin Warner <gwarner2_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:22:13 -0800
"Dave Kruger"wrote:

> Like you, Mark (and Doug), I'm an acid reflux sufferer (thank, you, hiatal 
> hernia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus_hernia ).

Me too.  I have to be very careful at lunch or I can suffer on the return 
trip.  I powered my way around the Isle of Man with a small water proof 
plastic bottle of peanuts, a plastic bottle of liquid honey and lots and 
lots of water.  Worked really well except for the last day when I somehow 
miscalculated the distance and ended up paddling for an additional four 
hours.

Somehow an extra 13 nautical miles got added in to the distance I had to 
cover.  In about the middle of it I found some friends waving to me from 
shore.  I landed and ate everything they had  but far too fast.  The 
resulting blood sugar rush almost put me on the floor.  I felt nauseous for 
a few moments walked it off and was able to continue.  Some where within the 
last half mile my plastic bottle of honey was washed off the deck.  I felt 
like Tom Hanks in Cast Away - I'd lost a companion but could not go back for 
him.  I was just to bagged.

Gordin Warner
Victorian nutter 
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