On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:50 AM, rebyl_kayak < rebyl_kayak_at_energysustained.com> wrote: > > Any way this year I'm motivated to find out how age and decrepitude has > affected my endurance for longer crossings and I'm training with Dee who is > even tougher than Lippy. Question is has turning 60 slowed me down? I don't > think you're allowed much longer than 19 hours to finish the Hawkesbury. > My father had a motto that served him well as he moved into his sixties: "Whenever I feel like running a mile I lay on the sofa until the feeling goes away." As it turned out he would have been better served by staying off the sofa and off the cigarettes but that's another story. I find myself thinking that 10km is a long paddle and that the sofa looks mighty comfy. > BTW my current heroes for this event are my friends Kate and Rae, two women > who after just a few weeks of training and in their first year of kayaking > broke the record in their class. And you know I'm willing to bet they did > enjoy the tranquility, beauty, and inner peace along the way - Its that kind > of race! > A good athlete can seemingly move with no effort from one sport to another. In the days before climbing walls we used to train on real - but not very high - rock piles and I remember watching a mates girlfriend move gracefully up a pitch that I had struggled with only a few minutes before. Some people have the talent. Others have motherships. :D Nice story Peter... I loved the bits where you met a beautiful woman on every race. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 24 2009 - 07:16:39 PDT
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